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I’m looking for questions for a Visual Studio Factoid

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Once again Rob Caron has sent me on a quest.  This time it is to put together a Visual Studio factoid – a list of historical facts about VS, like

  • Why is the executable devenv.exe instead of visualstudio.exe?
  • Is the Visual Studio logo an infinity symbol or Mobius Strip. (i recall a hallway debate over this once, many years ago)
  • Did the Solution Explorer originally appear on the right-hand side of the shell or the left, and why?

Throw out some of your questions, and i’ll see what i can find out.

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  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2008
    A couple of things I'm curious about:

  • Why did the editor window tab and border change to blue in Visual Studio 2008.

  • What do the colours in the Visual Studio log signify?

  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2008
    Where did the name "Team Foundation Server" come from? In VS2005 beta days, some of the directories were called "Enterprise Development Server" or something like that.

  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2008
    Why is the Folder still called common7 in sutdio versions 8 and 9?

  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2008
    Why did we lose the SDI option we had with VB6 and will we ever get it back?

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Does "About Visual Studio" dialog window contain any secret door to show the VS development team members' names similar to Internet Explorer(probably v5.0)? :-)

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    How much of Visual Studio is based on the old Visual InterDev environment?

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Sara,I'm curious to know how MSDN lib works and searches user entered queries across the flat files.?

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Why don't Solution Folders map to real folders like project folders? P.S.  What can we do so that in the next release of Visual Studio they will map to real folders?

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    What will be the last version of Visual Studio? What is next after Visual Studio 2008??Any new Technology??

  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2008
    How to I compile an older version of .cpp with the newer Visual Studio?

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2008
    Another question that i have is the history behind the Immediate Window and the Command Window.  I think i know the answer, but like to have it confirmed.