VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

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re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

valli — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:32:51 GMT

hi,

its interesting to see the new enhancements of vb and c# in vs 2010. if you want more on this have a look at this link.

http://www.vs-2010.com/vs2010/post/vs-2010-overview-vb-and-csharp-language.aspx

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

alwin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:42:01 GMT

What is wrong with

var employeesToGiveBonus = from e in EmployeeCollection

where e.Salary > 100000

select e;

session.Update(employeesToGiveBonus, e => e.Bonus = 100);

(Where session is something specific to the tech that also provides the LINQ provider, for example, NHibernate ISession.)

This way each LINQ provider can choose what to support or not. For many LINQ providers update or delete doesn't make sense.

I think LIN*Q* should be kept Query only, and not be tied down to database specific scenarios.

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Marzena Makuta — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:26:39 GMT

Hi Vijay,

My name is Marzena Makuta and I manage the Visual C++ documentation team. We own one of the topics you refer to, gcnew, and also anything that appears under the Visual C++ node in MSDN. Our team is very interested in making sure our customers find all the information that they need. I’d like to get some more information from you to better understand what additional content you were looking for in this topic.

Similarly, I am very interested in hearing specifics about what you would like to see in our other topics that you would find more helpful. Please feel free to email me at marzenam@microsoft.com, and I’ll be happy to hear how we can improve.

Cheers,

Marzena

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Levy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:22:41 GMT

Please add exception filters to C#. It works in VB so it should work in C# also. I really miss that feature, and I'm confident that I'm not alone in this...

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Nithin Mohan T K — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:07:06 GMT

Thanks. It was really worth information..

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

MSFT PM — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:48:55 GMT

Wake up people, these enhancements are put it to try to convince internal departments at Microsoft to embrace this technology. The office and Windows 7 teams at Microsoft will not touch the majority of this new technology like WPF and there are good reasons for it. It is too clunky to use and they have their own libraries/stacks that are stable and work much better. The sooner everyone realizes Microsoft caresless about your requests and what is needed in the field the better. Microsoft is changing paradigms faster then Obama is spending money and none of the new paradigms are any good. Quit wasting your time on these blogs and do something productive like code and make money. If you are smart you will still be using Visual Studio 2005 and quit being free beta testers for Microsoft.

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Sam — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:09:14 GMT

Ron, the audience for C# are usually not system or low-level programmers. Most of the methods, properties and features provided by the .NET Framework can easily help developers achieve the same end goal without having to deal with messy pointers. Why would one want to deal with pointers if .NET provides really easy (easier than pointers) to use classes for File handling and representing data structures? One cannot go wrong with this approach vs. pointers for almost all requirements. Pointers also compromise readability of code.

As powerful as pointers may be, users of these programming languages don't care much about pointers as long as the business goals are met without having to worry about debugging, memory issues, core dump exceptions and fatal errors!

Andres Hejlsberg can give you more insight! :)

Good luck!

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Ron Garrett — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:08:40 GMT

Sam, let's face it. C++ as become a brilliant dog's dinner. Even the texts warn one.

VB (and C#) haven't used pointers because for the last 9 years they have not been able to. I'm not worried about managed/unmanaged code. I can always build a class on a static object.

I need access just to the addresses of an object and its data and a structure to put them into. Especially arrays. I can then point 1d, 2d, ...nd arrays to the same data. Even in graphics data is nowadays 80Mb or more per image. Lockbits is a farce in that situation.

and co-ordinating file and buffer reading is so much easier with pointers. They have never been hard to use in these ways. I see no reason to complain that they are not suitable for a "simple" language. So often, C++ would be like using a missile to kill a crow.

I talk to my computer. I have not yet let it talk back. It might win too often. But I look forward to the day when I can program that way. Then I hope the conversation will be like Dillon and Andromeda rather than like the Atreides guru in Dune and his computer.

Regards anyway,

Ron

re: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Jono Wells {Microsoft - Visual Studio Team] — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:42:11 GMT

Richard Deeming asked this morning if there was a typo on the Visual Studio 2010 page regarding Visual Studio 2010 availability in MSDN Professional. Yes this was in fact a typo. Active MSDN Professional or Premium subscribers (at the time of Visual Studio 2010 receive) will receive Visual Studio 2010.

Thanks for pointing this out Richard.

Jono Wells

Senior Product Manager - Visual Studio