{"id":5223,"date":"2007-11-08T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/11\/08\/channel-9-interview-type-inference-in-visual-basic-with-bill-horst-beth-massi\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:39:00","slug":"channel-9-interview-type-inference-in-visual-basic-with-bill-horst-beth-massi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/channel-9-interview-type-inference-in-visual-basic-with-bill-horst-beth-massi\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 9 Interview: Type Inference in Visual Basic with Bill Horst (Beth Massi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=354872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst<\/a>, a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He&nbsp;shows us how the new Option Infer works and how various&nbsp;types are inferred by the compiler without having to explicitly declare them.&nbsp;Type inference is one of the new features in Visual Basic to support LINQ.<\/p>\n<p>Also make sure to check out these <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vbasic\/bb466226.aspx#linq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINQ How-Do-I videos <\/a>on the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vbasic\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VB Dev Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<br \/>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bethmassi\/\">Beth Massi<\/a>, VS Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst, a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He&nbsp;shows us how the new Option Infer works and how various&nbsp;types are inferred by the compiler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195],"tags":[40,94],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-member-interviews","category-visual-basic","tag-beth-massi","tag-linqvb9"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst, a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He&nbsp;shows us how the new Option Infer works and how various&nbsp;types are inferred by the compiler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}