Microsoft's Visual Studio may be modularized
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Microsoft's planned "Hawaii" release of its Visual Studio development platform may feature modularization, a Microsoft business partner said on Monday. But Microsoft officials are remaining mostly tightlipped about the project.
Presenting at the Visual Studio Connections conference, Michele Leroux Bustamante, chief architect at software design firm IDesign, noted a modular inclination by Microsoft but added that little detail has been available about Hawaii.
"There's not really a lot of information about this yet, but what they are saying is they're planning to do a modular redesign of the architecture of [Visual] Studio," Bustamante said. This is probably related to making the platform more pluggable and extensible. A new foundation to replace the aging code base of Visual Studio also is anticipated, according to Bustamante.