Episode

Enabling LINQ: Kit George Shows Off His Favorite VB 9.0 Language Features

In this in interview Kit George, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team and a former member of the CLR Team, shows us his favorite language features that enable LINQ without actually talking about the queries themselves. His excitement about Extension Methods, Anonymous Types, Object Initializers, Type Inference and the new Refactor! shows through in typical Kit fashion. It's an interview that's as much fun to watch as it was to produce!

0:00 – 0:53

Intro

1:22

Extension Methods

7:31

Anonymous Types and Refactor!

13:16

Object Initializers

14:15

Type Inference

17:30

Option Infer

21:41

Making Inferred Types Explicit with Refactor!