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Maybe you've seen this elsewhere, but the big news of the week (VB-wise, at least) is that the March 2007 Orcas CTP is now out . Those of you who've been following along with the previous Orcas CTPs will have noticed the paucity of new VB features relative to some of the other VS languages. This has been largely due to the different implementation strategies of the languages--since the Visual Basic compiler is so closely tied to the IDE services, we needed to really plumb the features a ... [ read more ]
while playing with the latest Orcas CTP I decided to try out the WPF editor tools, aka Cider.  With VB it's not too bad, although you do have to build before switching to the code view if you want full code editing support.  In C# though the experience is completely lame.   Here's a simple example. Let's say you add a button to a window and want to wire up the button's click event.  In VB you build, switch to code editor view and select button1 from the drop down list and then select whic ... [ read more ]
The March 2007 Orcas CTP is now available for download. You can see Soma's anouncement about it here . This is the first Orcas CTP to include new VB 9.0 features and is the first update of VB LINQ since last year's May 2006 LINQ CTP. Amongst a lot of other really cool Orcas stuff, this CTP includes previews of the following VB 9.0 features: Basic Query Support Object Initializers Extension Methods Type Inference Anonymous Types XML Literals XML Access Members ... [ read more ]


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