Lucian's VBlog

[This post is part of a series, " wish-list for future versions of VB "] IDEA: Allow you to override an event. This idea requires some explanation. Currently, both VB and C# allow you define events in interfaces, and implement them: Interface...

[This post is part of a series, " wish-list for future versions of VB "] IDEA: Allow "For Each x In collection Where x>10", and other query expressions. We should allow this kind of code: For Each x In collection Where x > 5 Currently...

[This post is part of a series, " wish-list for future versions of VB "] IDEA: We should allow "With" as a modifier on expressions. Currently the "With" object-initializer syntax is only allowed on constructors, e.g. Dim x = New S With {.p =...

[This post is part of a series, " wish-list for future versions of VB "] IDEA: With and From should be allowed together. It's just a silly oversight that they're not. For example, we should allow this: Dim x As New List ( Of Integer ) With {...

[This post is part of a series, " wish-list for future versions of VB "] IDEA: Emit a warning where "Nothing" is used in a likely-incorrect way. 99% of users think that "Nothing" means the same as C#'s "null", i.e. a null reference or empty nullable...

[This post is part of a series, " wish-list for future versions of VB "] IDEA: Make more keywords contextual, rather than reserved. At the moment lots of words like "Event" and "Next" and "AddHandler" are reserved keywords. If you want to have variables...