5 interesting things about the Chrome source code

I have been browsing through the Chrome source and found 5 interesting things:

  1. One of the tool projects is build in C# - that’s super cool.
  2. They seem to create some ActiveX shims for plugins. I wonder if that has been added to support the IE plugin model.
  3. The website on debugging has a VB.NET code sample that is apparently used as a makro to enable some kind of debugging features for the Chrome source code.
  4. Google reversed some of the IE structures to do importing of settings. There are even comments in the source code who say that specific structures have been reverse engineered.
  5. Last but not least: the whole application is build in Visual Studio 2005 and compiles very fine there. Upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 is only a few clicks when opening the solution in Visual Studio 2008.

It seem that Google uses a lot of Microsoft (Visual Studio, VB.NET, C#) technologies to create the Chrome. Quite cool and funny. :)

What did you find while browsing through the Chrome source code?

Published on Sep 7th, 2008 — Tags: , , , ,
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  1. it is awesome that those little suckers are using visual studio & c# hheheheh ^^.

    Comment by future SDET @ msft — September 14, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

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