Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:46:22 GMT

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re: Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

Fduch — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:19:18 GMT

Wow!

I see lot's of new features. Even new more pastel-like coloring scheme.

I also see the new Class constraint keyword.

Speed is much better. "Initializing toolbox for 20 minutes" bug is gone. Local MSDN help started to work.

Migrating...

Had to manually cahange version of System.Web.Extentions many times inside web.config.

GetChangeText is gone. Don't know where.

Bad things: XML literals are now disabled in aspx files.

re: Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

Aaron — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:17:32 GMT

Are Automatic Properties coming to VB? I just started the beta 2 VS 2008 and it looks like they only work in C#. Aaaaahhh! Otherwise, I love some of the new features. Especially being able to use the new interface but target .Net 2.0.

Cheers,

Aaron

re: Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

Frazer Smith — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:00:43 GMT

Our team uses VB.Net almost exclusively for developing agent and customer self-service applications for a major Canadian telecommunications company. I say almost, because we still have to use C# to compensate for weaknesses in VB.Net. Specifically: iterators and yield. Can someone on the VB Team explain why these fundamental language capabilities, frequently requested by the community, don't seem to be important enough to Microsoft to target in the feature set?