http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/Luca+Bolognese/default.aspxTags: Luca Bologneseen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/05/19/channel9-interview-with-luca-bolognese-vb-net-and-c-co-evolution-lisa-feigenbaum.aspxWed, 20 May 2009 05:28:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9630866VBTeam2http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/comments/9630866.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9630866<P>There was a great Channel9 video posted last week on the future directions of VB.NET and C# and how they are related. Charles Torre interviewed Luca Bolognese, who is currently the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. Please see below for more details.</P> <P><A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Luca-Bolognese-C-and-VBNET-Co-Evolution-The-Twain-Shall-Meet/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Luca-Bolognese-C-and-VBNET-Co-Evolution-The-Twain-Shall-Meet/"><FONT size=3><STRONG>Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution - The Twain Shall Meet</STRONG></FONT></A></P> <P><EM>by Charles Torre</EM></P> <P>For most of their lifetimes, C# and VB.NET have evolved at their own pace and in their own ways (C# added iterators, VB.NET didn't. VB.NET added XML Literals, C# didn't. etc, etc...). Today, Luca Bolognese and team have embarked on a new approach to how .NET's premiere languages will evolve going forward: Co-Evolution. Essentially, new language/compiler features will be developed for each language concurrently. No longer will C# get new language construct X while VB.NET adds Y. They will both get X (and they will both get Y). Anders Hejlsberg, the father of C#, now oversees both languages and will make sure that language innovations are developed for C# and VB.NET <EM>at the same time</EM>. <BR><BR>I visited Luca recently to get a sense of the rationale behind this new co-evolutionary approach to two very different languages. Why is co-evolution important? Why not just have the languages, which target different demographics (do they?), evolve in ways that match the needs their users? What's the story here? What's next?</P> <P><A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Luca-Bolognese-C-and-VBNET-Co-Evolution-The-Twain-Shall-Meet/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Luca-Bolognese-C-and-VBNET-Co-Evolution-The-Twain-Shall-Meet/"><IMG style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height=246 alt=image src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/vbteam/WindowsLiveWriter/Channel9Int.NETCoEvolutionLisaFeigenbaum_10F2E/image_3.png" width=327 border=0 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/vbteam/WindowsLiveWriter/Channel9Int.NETCoEvolutionLisaFeigenbaum_10F2E/image_3.png"></A></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9630866" width="1" height="1">Lisa FeigenbaumLuca Bolognesehttp://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/04/29/luca-bolognese-on-html-caching-in-vb-net-lisa-feigenbaum.aspxWed, 29 Apr 2009 22:15:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9576318VBTeam1http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/comments/9576318.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9576318<P>You may know Luca Bolognese from his well-known work on C# LINQ. Luca is now the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. You can check out his blog <A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/default.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/default.aspx">here</A>. Luca recently blogged his first VB.NET post. It is about asynchronous HTML caching, and is part of a longer series in which he is converting a financial VBA Excel add-in to .NET. The code uses the .NET Parallel Extensions that will be shipping in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Check it out at the link below:</P> <P><A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/archive/2009/04/27/an-async-html-cache-part-i.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/archive/2009/04/27/an-async-html-cache-part-i.aspx">An Async Html cache – part I</A></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9576318" width="1" height="1">Lisa FeigenbaumVB2010Luca Bolognese