A few years ago I did some presentations on memory leaks in .Net. I pointed out a few things you needed to be aware of even though you have a garbage collector. Like how you manage your events in .Net. Anyway, back then Rico Mariani was a great source for me (or actually his blog was)with all his knowledge about memory and performance stuff.

Summer 2007 Rico became Chief Architect of Visual Studio which gave me hope I think we already start to see his impact on the product. If you have been following Rico’s blog you know that he has been working with performance for almost 30 years!

Anyway, on his blog he have a few articles about where VS 2010 is heading and what we can or cannot expect. He also talks about the overall plans for Visual Studio (and not only 2010) which I found to be interesting reading. Here’s a couple of links from his blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/11/18/the-visual-studio-tech-roadmap-starring-visual-studio-2010.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/11/25/visual-studio-dialogue-with-wpf-performance-emphasis.aspx

One of the things that have come up is the use of WPF. WPF in Visual Studio? Is that a good idea? Well, as Rico says: Do you really think GDI is the last word in computer graphics for the next 10 years?

Check this video out where he more or less summarize what he said on his blog about VS: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Rico-Mariani-Visual-Studio-Today-Tomorrow-and-Beyond/

Below is a couple of other interviews he have done lately:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Paramesh-Vaidyanathan-and-Rico-Mariani-The-Future-of-Visual-Studio-Extensibility/

http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-21-talking-performance-with-performance-preacher-rico-mariani/