>Remember that you need to keep Visual Studio and .Net separated. There are many IDEs that can be used to develop .Net applications. Visual Studio is just one of them. They all use the same .Net framework. So, the specific question to your answer is that, yes VS was written using VS, since that's the IDE that Microsoft uses.
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>I heard from someone at Microsoft (I don't remember who exactly) that the IDE was written in C++ unmanaged code.
I wonder why the IDE is not written in C#. Is it because C# cannot handle the job or the project has been so rooted in it's legacy code that it would be costly (for MS) to convert?
How about .NET framework itself? I imagine the library is written in managed code. The compliers depend on the framework too, right?
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