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"Future Directions of Visual Basic" Interview with Paul Vick (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa FeigenbaumNovember 6, 2008Nov 6, 200811/6/08

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...

"Visual Basic 10: New Features" Interview with Paul Vick (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa FeigenbaumNovember 3, 2008Nov 3, 200811/3/08

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 ...

TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa FeigenbaumNovember 2, 2008Nov 2, 200811/2/08

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&...

Community Interview with Paul Vick (Beth Massi)

Beth Massi - MicrosoftOctober 6, 2008Oct 6, 200810/6/08

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 ...

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

Beth Massi - MicrosoftSeptember 28, 2008Sep 28, 200809/28/08

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...

"Future Directions of Visual Basic": Don't miss this talk at the Professional Developers Conference! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa FeigenbaumSeptember 19, 2008Sep 19, 200809/19/08

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is coming up next month, October 27-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The conference will focus on the future of the Microsoft platform. Here is the website for more information: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/At this future-looking conference, we will be giving a talk on the ...

Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick (Beth Massi)

Beth Massi - MicrosoftDecember 17, 2007Dec 17, 200712/17/07

Scott Hanselman posted a podcast with with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Check it out!Enjoy,-Beth Massi, VS Community...

Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Released (Beth Massi)

Beth Massi - MicrosoftOctober 19, 2007Oct 19, 200710/19/07

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&...

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

VBTeamJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

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 ...

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