2.8. Summary

Many developers were concerned at the prospect of Visual Studio's IDE being built using WPF—specifically that it would be slow and clunky. Microsoft has without a doubt demonstrated the flexibility and power of WPF and proved these doubters wrong! VS2010 has some great productivity enhancements in this release, and with the improved multitargeting support, even if you are not ready to move your code base to .NET 4.0, you can make use of many of these features today.