{"id":4173,"date":"2008-08-21T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2008\/08\/21\/vb-2008-language-deep-dive-presentation-materials-jonathan-aneja\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:20:22","slug":"vb-2008-language-deep-dive-presentation-materials-jonathan-aneja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/vb-2008-language-deep-dive-presentation-materials-jonathan-aneja\/","title":{"rendered":"VB 2008 Language Deep Dive – Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I got the chance to visit the <\/font>Toronto .NET User Group<\/font><\/a> and give a talk on all the great new language features<\/a><\/span> in VB2008.  It was great to see so much excitement around<\/span> LINQ and especially <\/font>XML Literals<\/font><\/a>!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The slides and demo code are posted at the link below; here\u2019s the session abstract <\/span>(with links inserted so you can find more info on each topic):<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new platform feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows you to access objects, databases, and XML through a common query syntax (in both VB and C#).  In this talk, we\u2019ll take a deep dive into the language features that LINQ uses internally to process your query, and see how they can be used in your own code.  Topics we\u2019ll cover include:<\/p>\n

– Query expressions<\/font><\/a>
– XML Literals<\/font><\/a>
– Type Inference<\/font><\/a>
– Anonymous Types<\/font><\/a>
– Extension Methods<\/font><\/a>
– Lambda expressions<\/font><\/a>
– Closures<\/font><\/a>
– Expression Trees<\/font><\/a>
– Partial Methods<\/font><\/a>
– Relaxed Delegates<\/font><\/a>
– Performance\/Deferred Execution<\/font><\/a>
– LINQ to Dataset<\/font><\/a>
– Dynamically constructing a LINQ query<\/font><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/i>We\u2019ll also look at some of the cool new IDE features as well as free add-ons such as <\/font>Refactor!<\/font><\/a> which can greatly improve your day-to-day productivity.  If you want to learn what makes VB the most powerful language for working with data then come on out!<\/font><\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

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Some of the resources mentioned on the last slide:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>VB Team blog (well, you\u2019re already here <\/font>J<\/span>)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Paul Vick\u2019s blog (<\/font>http:\/\/panopticoncentral.net<\/font><\/a>)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Beth Massi\u2019s blog (<\/font>http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bethmassi<\/font><\/a>)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>MSDN VBasic site (<\/font>http:\/\/msdn.com\/vbasic<\/font><\/a>)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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For those of you who were asking about dynamically constructing LINQ queries at runtime, you can find more information on that <\/font>here<\/font><\/a> and <\/font>here<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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There were a ton of great questions from the audience so I\u2019ll probably post an FAQ sometime next week<\/span>.  In the meantime don’t forget to download VS2008 SP1<\/a>, which allows you to use LINQ against SQL Server 2008.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

VBLanguageDeepDive.zip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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