{"id":3653,"date":"2008-11-03T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2008\/11\/03\/what-to-watch-as-a-vb-developer-at-pdc-lisa-feigenbaum\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:04:25","slug":"what-to-watch-as-a-vb-developer-at-pdc-lisa-feigenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/what-to-watch-as-a-vb-developer-at-pdc-lisa-feigenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"What to watch, as a VB Developer at PDC (Lisa Feigenbaum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After you <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2008\/11\/02\/experience-pdc-2008-whenever-and-wherever-for-free-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discover the PDC videos online<\/a>, and you watch the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2008\/11\/02\/tl12-future-directions-for-microsoft-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic<\/a>, you may wonder what other sessions <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftpdc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this year&#8217;s PDC<\/a> has to offer for the VB developer&#8230; Lots!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of PDC&nbsp;sessions related to the VB language and IDE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Guthrie&#8217;s speech in the 2nd day keynote:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/KYN02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/KYN02\/<\/a>&nbsp;(See 1hr 28min)<\/li>\n<li>Scott showed the new 2010 editor in his presentation. He explained that it&#8217;s built on MEF (the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/controlpanel\/blogs\/www.codeplex.com\/MEF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Extensibility Framework<\/a>) and WPF. He demonstrated the new extensibility model by showing how easy it is to build a cool add-in for visualizing XML comments. He also announced that the 2010 IDE will include features for TDD (test-driven development) and code focused development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Panel: The Future of Programming Languages<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL57\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL57\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In this session, Erik Meijer, Douglas Crockford, Gilad Bracha, Jeremy Siek, Anders Hejlsberg, and Wolfram Schulte discussed programming languages, in a panel format. Questions included: <\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you consider the most pressing problem in the industry today, and what is your language doing to solve it?<\/li>\n<li>How important to the language is syntax?<\/li>\n<li>Which is most important: the language, IDE, or libraries?<\/li>\n<li>How much should languages be opened up for the community to contribute?<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between modeling and programming, or is there a difference?<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the relationship between statically and dynamically typed languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>TL54: Natural Interop with Silverlight, Office, and Python in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL54\/\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL54\/<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Alex Turner went deep with examples on how to interoperate between dynamic and statically typed languages, using the new language features in VB 10 and C# 4.0. He showed a variety of examples, including Silverlight, Office applications, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><span><span>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>TL10 Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><\/span><span>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL10\/\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL10\/<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Jim Hugunin, Partner Architect, presented the Dynamic Language Runtime and how it works with the new language features in VB 10 and C# 4.0, to allow interop between static and dynamic languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><span><span><span>\n<p><span><span><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>TL16 The Future of C#<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span>\n<p><span><span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL16\/\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/pdc2008\/TL16\/<\/font><\/a><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>\n<p><span><span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Similar to the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2008\/11\/02\/tl12-future-directions-for-microsoft-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VB Futures session<\/a> by Paul and Lucian, Anders presented a session about C# 2010 and beyond. The VB and C# talks both covered similar topics including variance, interoperability with dynamic languages, concurrency, and a future goal of exposing the compilers as a service. Both presentations also expressed a commitment to &#8220;co-evolution&#8221; of the VB and C# languages. Co-evolution means that going forward, there will not be a significant feature added&nbsp;to one language without simultaneously adding it to the other. One other interesting note for VB developers is that Anders showed named and optional parameters (long-time VB features) being newly added to C# in C# 4.0.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span><span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Beyond the languages sessions, there are many more topics to watch: ASP.Net, Windows7, Oslo and more. So get comfortable and start watching!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After you discover the PDC videos online, and you watch the Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic, you may wonder what other sessions this year&#8217;s PDC has to offer for the VB developer&#8230; Lots! 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