http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/archive/tags/VB10/default.aspxTags: VB10en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/archive/2008/07/28/visual-basic-language-design-meeting-on-channel-9.aspxMon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8785418Eric Nelson0http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/comments/8785418.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8785418<p>Beth Massi <a title="I sat down with the VB Language design team" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/Visual-Basic-Language-Design-Meeting/">sat down with the VB Language design team</a> to “talk about their design process, favourite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is”. Thanks Beth – very useful. Looking forward to many more.</p><iframe src="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/417025/player/" frameborder="0" width="320" scrolling="no" height="325"></iframe><br><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/Visual-Basic-Language-Design-Meeting/">Visual Basic Language Design Meeting</a><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8785418" width="1" height="1">Visual Basic .NETVisual Basic 2008VB10http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/archive/2008/07/14/visual-basic-line-continuation-character-and-more-on-vb10.aspxMon, 14 Jul 2008 14:33:33 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8731378Eric Nelson0http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/comments/8731378.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8731378<p>I previously posted about <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/archive/2008/07/04/amanda-silver-on-visual-basic-2008-and-the-future-of-vb.aspx">Amanda discussing the future of VB</a> . One of the things Amanda talked about was the line continuation character. I just come across a <a href="http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2008/02/27/22910.aspx">little more detail</a> from Feb 2008. This post is by Paul Vick who is the language architect for Visual Basic and hence has a bunch of <a href="http://www.panopticoncentral.net/category/26.aspx">posts discussing VB10</a>.</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8731378" width="1" height="1">Visual Basic .NETVB10http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/archive/2008/07/04/amanda-silver-on-visual-basic-2008-and-the-future-of-vb.aspxFri, 04 Jul 2008 12:35:02 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8688291Eric Nelson1http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/comments/8688291.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8688291<p>Annoyingly I am on leave today and my wife has a long list for me that doesn't include 27mins to watch this video. </p> <p><strike>P.S. I will update this post once I get a chance to watch it!</strike></p> <p>Got to watch it today. Definitely worth a watch if VB is your thing - although don't expect any huge announcments. Quick summary</p> <ul> <li>Amanda starts by talking about a session she did at TechEd - including how she demonstrated&nbsp; "build your own LINQ" to explain LINQ and how the foundations were laid with changes in CLR 2.0 e.g. type inference (Option Infer)</li> <li>6:00 mins in and the conversation moves on to talk about dynamic languages (think Python, Lisp etc) and the relation to VB. Edit and Continue comes up a lot</li> <li>9:00 in and Edit and Continue and the challenges to add it in VS 2005 are discussed in lots of detail (Many teams - clr, debugger, languages, ide and 11 months of work") and yet limitations remain - can really only edit contents of a method, not types.</li> <li>12:00 and Amanda starts to discuss how ability to change types <strong>might</strong> be implemented - using a new dynamic type that sits above normal clr types. Methods would be able to be added and removed etc.</li> <li>15:00 Amanda explores how intellisense capabilities <strong>might</strong> be increased during the debug experience</li> <li>17:00 Discusses the problems of COM types</li> <li>22:00 Amanda talks about a feature which was pulled from VS2008 but sounds extremely likely to be in the next release - getting rid of the line continuation character in many cases (which will make all of us coding LINQ very happy). XML Literals was the first example of a feature in VB that spanned lines.</li></ul> <p><iframe src="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/409971/player/" frameborder="0" width="320" scrolling="no" height="325"></iframe><br><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/TechEd-Amanda-Silver/">TechEd Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and VB in the future</a></p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8688291" width="1" height="1">Visual Basic .NETVisual Basic 2008VB10