Visual Studio IDE Development

Question

What does the Visual Studio team at Microsoft use to develop new versions of Visual Studio? Do they use VS2005 to develop VS2008? Thinking about it, my head hurts a little ...

Answer 1

We dogfood our products, and VS is no exception.

/ me goes back to his happy world of rainbows, unicorns, lambda, autoand dynamic;)

Answer 2

One of the PDC videos I watched recently said they use VS2010 to develop VS2010.

You can imagine how quickly errors are fixed.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

C was implemented for writing UNIX. UNIX is written in C. On UNIX, currently. At some point, you use what you have created to continue to build it.

I would suggest that the very first version of VS2008 is written in VS2005, but then they start using VS2008 as soon as it is possible to continue developing VS2008.