Want to play with the new WPF based code editor that’s coming in VS2010? See Windows 7 and the PowerShell ISE

In the latest Hansel Minutes, Scott interviewed one of the developers working on the new WPF based code editor that’s coming in VS2010, <The new WPF-based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 - Interview with a Dev/>. During the interview it was mentioned that the new PowerShell 2 ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) in Win7 is sharing/using the new code editor already.

 
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That was news to me, and something I thought pretty cool.

Why cool? Because the more units in MS using a product/library/etc the better it will be and less likely to get dropped like a bad habit in the near future.

Also it means that the editor is .Net 3.5 based. Since Windows 7 will not ship with .Net 4 (and .Net 4 is not part of the Win7 beta) yet the PS ISE is using the editor… In my mind this is a huge endorsement by MS for WPF 3.5. That the Dev Div is betting heavily on WPF 3.5. I like that.

Anyway, if you have the Win7 Beta you can start playing with the code editor today, without have VS2010 installed.