Yes. It's a WPF app running on the framework. MS has no plans to open source WPF or include the required assemblies into the CoreCLR so I doubt we will ever see VS running on a *nix platform.
The majority of the Visual Studio code is still C++. The shell was rewritten to use WPF and MEF. So, I wouldn't exactly call it a WPF app. More like it uses some WPF.
XamarinStudio has gotten a lot nicer the past two-three years. That might be worth a go. I've also had varying success running VisualStudio well in VirtualBox.
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Is Visual Studio made with .NET? If it was I could dream of a Mac/Linux version one day...
Yes. It's a WPF app running on the framework. MS has no plans to open source WPF or include the required assemblies into the CoreCLR so I doubt we will ever see VS running on a *nix platform.
The majority of the Visual Studio code is still C++. The shell was rewritten to use WPF and MEF. So, I wouldn't exactly call it a WPF app. More like it uses some WPF.
Run Visual GDB and target x86 Linux... http://visualgdb.com/toolchains/embedded
XamarinStudio has gotten a lot nicer the past two-three years. That might be worth a go. I've also had varying success running VisualStudio well in VirtualBox.
I'm sure it uses a lot of Windows specific libraries. That being said the Mono project has been working to create open source equivalents for a while.