The Future of C#

Great! Can't imagine beeing there is any better

Is there a way to download the Video.  My broadband connection is not fast enough to stream the video.

My "broadband" isn't up to snuff either.  (Nothing sucks more than paying $100 a month for max 30k/second, but when you live 30 miles north of the arctic circle I guess you learn to deal with it.)

Anyway, mucking arround in the view source reveals this URL:

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/TL16.wmv

and my download manager seems to take it.  Ask me in 6 hours if it worked.

You can download if you use Firefox and the Video DownloadHelper [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006]

Start playing the video and the little VDH icon will be animated, just click on it and do a "Save As.." [works for tons of other embedded video sources as well]

I tried to listen to this presentation a number of times and every time the stream hangs up.  Its frustrating.  Can you up load the presentation on Azure?

To download the video:

1. Hover the pointer over "Downloads" (in the bar below the description and the "Resources" link)

2. You will see the video link appear below "Downloads"

3. Right click on the video link and choose "Save Target As..." to download the video.

Notice that the Resources includes the link to the PowerPoint slides.

Impressive.

If I could've been there I would have applauded.  I'm very excited to see the direction Microsoft is taking their core and language features.

Fantastic job!

Anders, I want to have your babies ^^ if it was possible.

In serious note, the presentation was very good, i got the same felling when you did the channel9 cast on LINQ. It seems to me that when ever you make your appereance we have some new and fantastic tools to play with. 

Thank you

Please continue the good work and send my regards to the team.

Daniel Portella

Wow! Right now, I would kill for the "compiler as server" functionality...

Anders you are the ONE........

This is so amazing that I almost crapped my pants . . . Compiler as Service is darn awesome. The named default parameters are pretty awesome too, I have been missing them since C.

The "dynamic" stuff needs to be taken with criticism - I guess many untrained developers such as students might mistake C# for a scripting language. I am afraid of the day I get a piece of code saying 1000x dynamic and a 1000 times var and not a single type name in it. . .

That surely was an impressive presentation, but I also have some questions:
Refering to the example he brought with the Method WriteBag(), I'm wondering what would have happened if he wrote AvgPrice instead of Price.
Calling the method with the dynamic type - for my opinion - woul have thrown some kind of "IndexOutOfRange" exception because this Property was not in the bag.
Calling it with the var, I guess would throw a "MissingMemberException".

Without any intellisense I'm wondering how you really would write code in the way he showed that office example. I guess I don't even know all my methods of the code I have ever written, so I might really be unable to just go on and type: > myObject.SomeMethod(withTheRightArguments)
without any IntelliSense. I might not know what I'm actually calling there. So I guess developers would write code with static typing and then refactor it to dynamic? No they won't.

The compiler as Service is quite nice, but I guess you can find about hundrets of Scripting-Hosts written in C# doing in memory compile and further more. I for my self have just do this by calling one of my classes: Active.DynamicClassCompiler.Compile(string code) and I could go on with the compiled class ...

Where do we go to provide feedback on C# so that Anders and his team will get the feedback?

Hi, can you guys (and by that I mean many of the PDC talkers) please avoid having white text on yellow background and similar clashing colors?

/say Anders "gief me all you got!"

at the c# future discussion board in the msdn forums i think if not try the codeplex project there you will find the link for it.

Amazing. The compiler as service is the future although I don't have any use for now. The new interop improvement is really great. And dynamic type is really nice for certain situaltions. Instead of using function pointers, I can use dynamic object and call the functions.

You can try add a comnent there http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/csharpfuture

Hi,
It's Awesome! I was wondering that I can use just dynamic keyword, Why bother for the data type But again there are some pros and cons of dynamically typed.

Great Work C# Team (Y)

This is nice one,

good    I   admire  you so much ?    and I like C# so much ! haha

Good to see that the recently euthanized Visual Foxpro features (eval/dynamic compile) are slowly integrated into C#. Smart move, those things are useful as hell.