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		city41 on April 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) A large portion of Visual Studio is written in C#.

LeoNatan25 on April 11, 2017 [–]

By "large", you mean some of the UI using WPF, the plugin system supporting C# and some of NuGet?. Not that those are small projects, but considering what is inside Visual Studio, they are hardly "large portions" of Visual Studio.

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