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TechEd Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and VB in the future

Posted: Jun 30, 2008 at 9:36 AM
By: Dan Fernandez
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I caught up with Amanda Silver to discuss new for 2008 features like LINQ, XML Literals, using LINQ to target LINQ for .NET Framework 2.0. Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of dynamic typing in Visual Basic, runtime changes in edit-and-continue, how to make changes in pseudo-run mode, the challenges in adding IntelliSense for dynamic typing, and improving native/Pinvoke calls for .NET developers. Amanda also reveals her toughest feature cut that the team had to make for the VB 2008 release.

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eagle

Jun 30, 2008 at 1:04 PM

It's always great to see Amanda, nice job Dan.
taluis

Jun 30, 2008 at 1:46 PM

Did I hear that right, at the end of the video? That the VB Team is thinking of doing away with the underscore requirement for line continuation? If so, that would be a MAJOR enhancement, in my book.

Here are a couple of links I found that follow that train of thought:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/Line-Continuation

http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2008/02/27/22910.aspx
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Jul 01, 2008 at 12:46 PM

I love it that VB is adding so much more value on top of the BCL. I love that it's taking a customer-centric approach. Nothing against C#, but from all the new stuff going into VB, I need to get familiarized with it again.

Good job Amanda & Paul, even though I did give you guys grief earlier on IsNot.

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