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

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jun 30th @ 9:36 AM
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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#Jun 30th @ 1:04 PM
eagle
eagle
It's always great to see Amanda, nice job Dan.
#Jun 30th @ 1:46 PM
taluis
taluis
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
#Jul 1st @ 12:46 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
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. Smiley