Visual Studio '11' Announced

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 8:29 PM UTC

Visual Studio '11' Announced
blogs.msdn.com

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Post by ConstantineXVI » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 8:49 PM UTC

Since they're making such a big deal on the new styling; would anyone know the rationale they had for making VS2010 purple?

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Post by brosephius » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

Maybe it's just me but I like the "Strong use of color" better. I find it hard to quickly find the tool button I want when they're all monochrome. I'm sure I'd get used to it, but I can't really say the colors in the GUI are my primary distraction when I'm coding...

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Post by km3k » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 8:57 PM UTC

It looks like a monochrome Visual Studio 6. I don't really see how this is an improvement.

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Post by bitwize » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 8:59 PM UTC

I came shockingly close to projectile vomiting when I read the header "The New Developer Experience".

My experience of developing is quite similar regardless of the tools I use. And I've been developing for years on a variety of toolkits including VS.

A slick mobile UI styled facelift on their signature overweight IDE isn't going to radically change the developer's experience.

(Also, who else looked at Metro and ICS's love affair with abstract geometric single-color icons and thought "OLPC"?)

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Post by bitwize » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:00 PM UTC

ConstantineXVI wrote: post #2

Since they're making such a big deal on the new styling; would anyone know the rationale they had for making VS2010 purple?

Gray got boring.

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Post by jamesaguilar » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

I like the new decolorized look. The colors don't seem to add much and are a bit noisy.

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Post by barista » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:09 PM UTC

The blog is by UX designer guy. So obviously he's focusing on the UI changes. Hope there are more substantial changes in this release other than just a change in color scheme and iconography.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC

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Post by baconner » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:12 PM UTC

Someone over there has clearly been reading tufte although I think in some cases (the new all gray icons) they've gone overboard.

Overall the strategy of moving the interface into the background and the content you're building into the foreground is great. I want my eyes drawn to what I'm building not 50 other ui elements. The metro style icons IMO are a bit hard to distinguish from eachother but anything I used regularly I'd have a keyboard shortcut for anyway and the new command search handles the rest. I think they're on the right track.They're minimizing any mental activity that's taking focus away from actually coding and that's a good thing.