what is Visual Studio 2010 Shell?

.net visual-studio-2010 visual-studio visual-studio-shell
Toubi picture Toubi · Sep 26, 2013 · Viewed 26.3k times · Source

Is Shell an Visual Studio edition just like express, professional etc ?

I had VS2010 Shell installed on my machine but was not able to open many projects in it. Can any one help please. Never headred about this edition.

Answer

Diego C Nascimento picture Diego C Nascimento · Sep 26, 2013

Visual Studio Shell is a base for developing some parts of IDEs. If you want, you can use it to create your own programming environment instead of starting from the zero.

All Visual Studio (C#, C++, VB.Net, Web), shares some of the shell functions, implementing the environment specific on each one, and configuring bunch of parameters on the shell.

Some 3rd party uses Visual Studio Shell too, like Atmel Studio.

More about: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb685612.aspx

Note: I don't think you will open any project in the shell itself, it will open under the correct implemented IDE troght a selector application and its registered IDEs.

Related questions

Type or namespace name does not exist

I have a WCF Data Service project built with Visual Studio 2010, which was working fine. All of a sudden, it didn't compile anymore. It was giving me messages like: Error 7 The type or namespace name 'Services' does not exist in …

Read More
How do I run Visual Studio as an administrator by default?

I recently discovered that even while logged into my personal laptop as an administrator, Visual Studio does not run in administrator mode and you need to explicitly use Run As Administrator. Is there a way to make it run as …

Read More
Getting the PublicKeyToken of .Net assemblies

What is the simplest way to find the Public-Key-Token of an assembly? The simplest way I can think of would be a simple right-click, get public key, but this functionality isn't there, maybe there is a Visual Studio Extension for …

Read More