"What will be the major impact on having WPF for C++ coding? Only eye-candy or something usefoul?"

The new editor is based on WPF, there are lot of usefull features that we gain by adopting WPF. The editor for example is extensible so 3rd parties will be able to extend on top of the editor functionality. This means we will see a lots of new utilities which will help developers around the world.

Moreover the new editor will help increase productivity for developers, especially developers dealing with large source code bases as it makes it easier for them to navigate around the source code.

Thanks,

Amit Mohindra
Visual C++ Team