Lisa Feigenbaum

I just posted a Visual Basic version of the code used during this video, for those who are interested:

http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa/archive/2009/10/31/visual-basic-code-for-net-parallel-extensions-video.aspx

 

Thanks Stephen and Jason for yet another great video!

 

Lisa Feigenbaum, VS Languages Community Program Manager

Hi Jeffery,

The features you mention are certainly important ones for VB.NET development. In VB 2010, there will be the ability to stub out new functions. We're calling this feature "Generate From Usage". Here are a couple resources with more info:

http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/13/walkthrough-tdd-support-with-the-generate-from-usage-feature-in-vs-2010-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/02/code-focused-development-in-visual-studio-2010-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx

Unfortunately, the ability to refactor chunks of code to their own function (a.k.a. "Extract Method") is not yet available in the VB product. However we've been partnering with DevExpress over the past few years to fill this hole, and they ship a FREE add-in that includes this feature and a whole lot more. The latest release for the DevExpress add-in was this past week, and includes over 60 refactorings.  More info below:

Download DevExpress CodeRush Xpress: http://www.devexpress.com/crx

Watch a video of this tool in action: http://tv.devexpress.com/CodeRushXpressVBIntro.movie

Cheers,
Lisa

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your post. It would be interesting to know what surveys you've been seeing. There certainly are a lot of languages in the Basic family: Basic, PowerBasic, ThinBasic, FreeBasic, SmallBasic, VBA, VBScript, VB6, VB.NET - the list goes on! When mining the data that Luca referred to, we made sure to just include the numbers of developers using VB.NET (and then we compared those numbers to C#). The survey that we use contains a large sample space that is representative of developers around the world. I would argue that a survey on a blog does not have the same kind of sample space. Finally our survey asks what language you are using now, whereas the question on the blog survey is different.

Good to hear from you,
Lisa

Luca mentioned some VB6 resources in this presentation. Here's the site for that information: http://msdn.com/vbrun

Yikes, I need to view this in full-screen. This background is making me dizzy!

Way to go, Jon!