Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VB XML Literals

Paul Mooney — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:32:42 GMT

C# developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XMLVisual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called XML...

re: Panel: C# developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)

int19h — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:03:32 GMT

While this makes sense, I still prefer C# terse syntax and extra features (such as iterators) any day. But I would really like it if I could use VB as a DSL specifically to write XML query/manipulation code. It is unfortunate that Visual Studio does not properly support the multi-language assembly scenario, even though the underlying tools are all there (compile to .netmodule & use al.exe, which is even supported by MSBuild via <AddModules> - but VS doesn't understand this for Intellisense and error highlighting purposes). Is there any chance that this will change in VS10?

re: Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)

mepe — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:22:55 GMT

C# 4.0 will include VB language features. It is an action by Microsoft to encourage moving to C#.

re: Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:47:21 GMT

VB 10 will also include C# language features. :)

We are equally pushing both VB and C#, not one over the other. The effort you are seeing is about making sure the same power is available in both.