Darryl Burling @ Work : C#

C#3 features in .Net 2.0

dburling — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:01:29 GMT

In my presentation today at bootcamp I alluded to the fact that some of the C#3 features can be used in .Net 2.0.

Daniel Moth (a developer evangelist in the UK) has done a couple of blog posts that have more details.

Specifically he mentions that the following C#3 features work in .Net 2.0:

Local variable inference
object initializers
anonymous types
lambda expressions

He's got a sample and more detail in this blog post.

Visual Studio Express Betas released

dburling — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:07:58 GMT

We released Beta 2 of the Express editions yesterday as well as the other Visual Studio 2008 SKU's.

You can go to the pretty download page here.

The express editions include some of the cool new features of the full version including the O/R Designer (for LINQ), RSS support via WCF and WPF integration with Windows Forms.

If you dont want to go through the full 3-4Gb download, or you are hanging out until Tech Ed to get the DVD, This is a good download to get into.

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been released

dburling — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:10:00 GMT

Hot off the press.

We just released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. Soma has all the details. Check the Channel9 Video too.

This is a very cool product - I've been learning about some of the new features this week. I'll be doing a user group tour in the next few months to help get the message out about why this is a very cool release that you'll want to move to from VS2005.

Download link.

If you are going to Tech Ed we will have DVD's of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 available to give out there, so dont break your download limit unless you really, really want to. (If you are an early adopter and do download it, post a comment to this entry :-))

Scott Hanselman on Visual Studio 2008

dburling — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:13:33 GMT

I've just finished listening to Scott Hanselman's podcast on Visual Studio 2008. One of the nice things about this podcast is that its not just another LINQ love session, digging a bit more into some of the underlying changes to the compilers and the languages.

Carl Franklin also notes that he hasn't moved to C# yet (implying that he's still on VB.Net) which just goes to show that its not just Nick Randolph using VB. :-)

Carl and Scott also talk about how Visual Basic is "reasserting itself as a dynamic language" in the next release, taking it closer to its roots.

On the VB note, we have some good content at Tech Ed on VB. More will be shared in the near future, but we should have someone from the product team down for the event which will be very cool!

You can get the podcast here (MP3 direct link).

Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP now out

dburling — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:53:00 GMT

The March CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" is now out. You can get the VPC with all the installed bits from here. If you'd rather install it on your own computer, the self extracting install is here.

Full details of whats included can be found at the download page, but interesting things include:

Full support for all the C# 3.0 features,
AJAX and javascript debugging support for ASP.Net Development
Cross framework web development support (target .Net 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 in your web dev)
WPF Designer
Click once for Office Applications
Peer networking class API's in the CLR
and lots more...

Go get it :-)