After a keynote presented by Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Product Unit Manager of VS Platform & Ecosystem, and Rico Mariani (a.k.a. Bill Murray) Chief Architect of Visual Studio, we have an idea about what is next on Visual Studio CodeName “Hawaii”, they are taking seriously extensibility as well another improvements for VS, here there are a few features:

• WPF-based text editor
• Small, so obviously faster
• More modular, reliable, WPF-based look and feel
• Help developers through Live Search

Using WPF in Visual Studio is an amazing idea, so with WPF Visual Studio will become like ExpressionStudio (just look and feel, I guess), right now on VS2008, the Properties panel on a WPF-Application Project seems to be built with WPF.