If Visual Studio 2010 based on WPF, why I cannot open it with reflector?
In other words, devenv.exe seems to be native assembly, so where is the WPF UI code?
If Visual Studio 2010 based on WPF, why I cannot open it with reflector?
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If Visual Studio 2010 based on WPF, why I cannot open it with reflector?
In other words, devenv.exe seems to be native assembly, so where is the WPF UI code?
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devenv.exeexecutable is indeed a native program. However, native programs can load the .NET runtime and thereby host Windows Forms and WPF components. In fact, Visual Studio has always done this. Even before VS2010 adopted WPF for its editor and shell, the various Visual Studio designers were implemented in Windows Forms. If you go into theCommon7\IDEandCommon7\IDE\PrivateAssembliesdirectories, you’ll find lots of designer DLLs that you can view in Reflector (e.g.Microsoft.VisualStudio.ORDesigner.Dsl.dllis the LINQ to SQL designer).So the new WPF bits of Visual Studio are just another set of managed assemblies hosted in the native executable. I’m not sure which particular assemblies host the WPF bits — and to be honest there are probably dozens. But looking at the VS process in the debugger, I’d say
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editor.dll(which lives in the GAC, not in the VS install directory) would be a good place to start.