March 23rd, 2009
by Olga Belokurskaya
Hi there!
As you may have already known, Jason Zander, the General Manager for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at Microsoft, uncovered the new look for Visual Studio 2010 in his latest blog post. He announced several improvements and new features for the new Visual Studio UI:

Reduced clutter and visual complexity by removing excessive lines and gradients in the UX and modernized the interface by removing outdated 3D bevels
Introduced multiple monitors support
Placed focus on content areas by opening negative space between windows and drawing attention to the current focus with a dominant accent color and a distinctive background
Added an inviting new palette to make VS 2010 more distinctive
Triangle glyphs in the margin are used to collapse or expand your code blocks
Collapsed sections of code are marked with an empty triangle (pointing straight) as well as a set of ellipses
Colors on the margin indicate edits that have been made
New Project dialog has updated to include online template viewing, a search box, and easier navigation
New Extensions Manager to improve searching and installing VS extensions
Amazing, but as it comes from the comments to his blog post, the most appreciated feature is the possibility of using multiple monitors.