New technical article on Visual Studio 2010 Language Futures

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #243

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #243 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:37:43 GMT

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re: New technical article on Visual Studio 2010 Language Futures

Jonathan Allen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:59:41 GMT

> If you do opt for this syntax, note that you will not have access to the field which stores the value for the property, which might be an issue if you need to pass the property value by reference into a method.

That shouldn't be an issue, the VB compiler will automatically create the temporary variable.

Feature Jealousy

phazed.com — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:44:11 GMT

What’s got LINQ, but doesn’t have a yield keyword and no Action or multiline lambdas? What’s supposed to be an easy to learn language, but supports exception filters when other supposedly more complex languages don’t? The answer, VB.NET. “Co-evolution”