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Nov 6, 2008
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"Future Directions of Visual Basic" Interview with Paul Vick (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

In this short 10min video, I interview language architect Paul Vick about what industry trends he would think about while designing the Visual Basic language. Some of these trends have motivated features in the next version of the Visual Basic language (VB 10.0), such as interop with dynamic languages. Others are things the team is ...

Nov 3, 2008
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"Visual Basic 10: New Features" Interview with Paul Vick (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

In this video, I interviewed language architect Paul Vick about what new language features are coming in the next release of Visual Basic. We talked about auto-implemented properties, collection initializers, statement lambdas, removal of the line continuation feature, and more. These features were recently announced at ...

Nov 2, 2008
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TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead & Software Engineer) gave an awesome presentation on the Future of VB. The presentation ...

Oct 6, 2008
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Community Interview with Paul Vick (Beth Massi)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

One of our Italian Visual Basic MVPs, Alessandro Del Sole, sent over some interview questions for the Visual Basic Team members to get our thoughts on the language and favorite features but mostly to share some of our personal interests to help you get to know us better. I also learned some fun facts about the team as well! Alessandro is also ...

Sep 28, 2008
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Where is the VB Team going to be over the next few months? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

We have quite a few trips coming up over the next couple months, and we want to connect with you while we’re on the road. Here is our plan. Let us know where we can find you. ;-)  October 6-7, 2008 Software Development Conference 2008: http://www.sdc.nl/ Beth Massi October 8-10, 2008TechEd Hong Kong: http://www.microsoft.com/hk/...

Oct 19, 2007
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Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Released (Beth Massi)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

The Beta 2 version of the Visual Basic Language specification has been released onto the download center. This language specification corresponds to the version of Visual Basic that will ship in Visual Studio 2008. The spec covers the following major new features:• Friend assemblies (InternalsVisibleTo)• Relaxed delegates•&...

Jul 26, 2007
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Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

VBTeam
VBTeam

Hooray! Visual Basic 2008 Beta2 has been released to the wild today to return to its natural habitat – the desktops of our beloved customers. (Please note our smiling GPM's face on that landing page -- he's so happy the Beta is done.) What’s inside? So much that there might be more new features than we released in Beta1, but who’s counting? ...