Total Trivia Question

[ehelin]

Hi All:

 

Just sitting here with one of my collegues and was wondering if anyone knows what visual studio is built with? And for that matter, windows itself?

 

I have always assumed it was C/C++ since that is what the API calls resemble.

 

Just curious...

 

Eric

[Cags]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Visual Studio is built with well Visual Studio, lol. More accurately I think it was designed at least partially with the .Net Framework. I know it sounds an odd concept, but I'm sure I read it somewhere.

[snarfblam]

Visual studio is most likely written in C++. I am almost certain that Windows was.

 

VS must have been programmed in a language with some managed (.Net) functionality because it is fully interactive with the managed runtime environment.

[ehelin]

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nerseus]

I don't know what VS was built with but I know it still uses COM for most of the internals, including most of the plugins (even VSS, I think).

 

I worked with a guy (who is now at Microsoft) who talked to friends of his at MS to find out why the Add-ins were so hard to program. They told him that they developed code in .NET internally, but when it comes time to put something new into VS they have to get it working with COM. Or something like that. It sounded ridiculous, but that's what I heard. It would explain why, even in VS 2005, Add-ins have a COM-like feel to them.

 

-ner