A group blog from members of the VB team
There's a great Channel9 series that was recently released, with lots of videos on what to look forward to in VS 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0! The landing page is here; full lineup is below.
Intro (Monday, November 10th): - Visual Studio 2010 Overview, Jason Zander - Key Themes for Visual Studio 2010, Soma - Lab Management in Visual Studio Team System 2010 Languages Day (Tuesday, November 11th): - C# 4.0 Implementation and Design Questions, Anders Hejlsberg - VB 10, Lucian Wischik - C++ 10: 10 is the new 6, Amit Mohindra The IDE (Wednesday, November 12th): - Being Code-Focused with Visual Studio 2010, Karen Liu - Test-Driven Development and Visual Studio 2010, Karen Liu - Future of Visual Studio Extensibility, Rico Mariani Concurrency and Parallelism (Thursday, November 13th): - Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 4.0, Stephen Toub - Parallel Patterns Library (Native Parallelism), Rick Molloy - Parallel Debugging Tools in Visual Studio 2010, Daniel Moth Web Tools (Friday, October 3rd): - Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010, Reza Chitsaz - Web Development and Deployment with Visual Studio 2010, Vishal Joshi
after watching lucian's vb10 language specification i can see vb10 won't have any new language inovations, but merely more shortcuts for doing the same things we've been able to do with a little less typing (ie: initializing, line breaks etc)....
My personal favorites from the Channel9 series are the ones that are about <a href="http://www.notionsolutions.com">Web Tools</a>....I mean the others are great as well..but I am kind of a Web man myself..so...