Barton Learns Visual Basic!
I recently convinced a friend of mine, Barton Friedland (founder of Bay.NET and rock star), to take a look at the next version of Visual Basic -- 9.0 and specifically it's implementation of LINQ to XML and XML literals. Barton is a curious as a cat when it comes to languages and I thought I could easily coax him into taking a look. Phrases like "XSLT and XQuery killer" and "most productive tool" were thrown about during the conversation and that got him hook, line and sinker.
Barton and his superhero/coworker side-kick Amy at Luminous Group in SF both started spending time learning Visual Basic 9 in the evenings. When I checked up with them last month Barton told me he was ready to start posting. Well he finally did and he's written this post and this one both on XML literals, a new unique feature of VB 9.
I'm really enjoying seeing the typical C-style programmers like Barton take a very serious look at VB.
Enjoy!
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About Beth Massi
Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
