Posted By: Alexandre Moura, Visual Basic QA, compiler<\/p>\n
Well, back in the rain in Redmond after a waiting list scare at the airport – with my first TechEd behind me, it’s time to recap:<\/p>\n
The main thing I’ve brought from this exhibition is that most people are extremely interested on the work we’ve done and are doing in vb – The new features have been very well received, and we have quite a few people that can’t wait for Visual Studio 2005 to come out.<\/p>\n
More specifically on some of the features:
– Local Data was well received – I had at least one person looking for a way to have data stored locally more compatible with an sql database – local data will probably help. The general reaction was that this is a cool feature.
– Click Once seemed to be universally loved – while David did most of the demos here, everyone I talked to seemed to like the feature.
– Error correction surprised a few people – reactions varied from the “looks nice” to the “very cool”
– Surprizingly, edit and continue drew relatively lukewarm reactions (not that people didn’t like it, but seemed less enthusiastic about it than for other features) – mostly it seemed to incite some envy on non VB programmers – not sure if the way I demoed it was at fault, but a couple of comments I got were along these lines: “this was already in vb6, right?” and “You guys got edit and continue back after we got used to not having it…”
– The new language features were also well received, although again some of the reactions seemed a bit less enthusiastic than I expected – Some people liked having the windows forms designer code hidden in a partial class, most people seemed to like the generic collection, but some people seemed to not care so much about operator overloading, for example. Again, maybe I just have some way to go in getting to be a good demo’er.<\/p>\n
In balance, this was an extremely positive experience – I may have given the idea that people didn’t care much about some of the features, but it’s mostly a relative thing – there wasn’t a single thing that wasn’t well received, it’s more the enthusiasm balance for some features when compared to others that surprized me. Also, on a personal level, this was also a great experience, getting to see how people appreciate the work we’ve done in VB.<\/p>\n
Finally, I’d like to tip the hat to David Guyer and Jay Schmelzer for their work at the booths – they did an excelent job at demoing the new features and getting people excited about VB.<\/p>\n
Alex signing out.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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