Talk: What's new in VB11

This talk details some of what's new in VB11. (Just some: there were too many improvements to cover them all in just one talk).

Win8 support
VBCore (=> new platform support for VB on Phone, XNA, MicroFramework, Kinect, Surface...)
Async
CallerMemberInfo
Iterators
View Call Hierarchy
Namespace Global
AnyCpu32bitPreferred allows EnC on x64 machines
Better codespit and pretty-listing
Better performance
Better error-reporting for lambdas, and (not yet in VS11beta but will be) no more 102-error-limit for vbc/msbuild
Fixed language corners in ForEach, ReturnArrayLiterals, OptionalParameterOverloads, GenericOverloadResolution

• I gave this talk at DevConnections2012 in Vegas on 2012.93.26
• Watch video online
• Download source_code.zip [82k, requires VS11]
• Download script.docx [29k]
• Download slides.pptx [3.4mb]
   
• Similar material elsewhere
  • Blog post by Jonathan Aneja - read article "What's new in VB11" on the VB Team Blog
  • MSDN article "Breaking Changes in VB11"