Friday, August 31, 2007

"Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus" - Excellent Introduction Series to New VB9 Features

B# .NET Blog - Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Introduction

"It seems a little weird for a C# MVP to start a series on VB 9.0 Language Enhancements, isn't it? However, I have a strong passion of the CL in CLR and CLS: Common Language. Therefore, I'll focus in this blog series on various language enhancements that ship with VB 9.0 as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 release wave. If you're more of a CSharpish guy or girl, check out my C# 3.0 posts.

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For the last couple weeks Bart De Smet has been delivering a number of very cool posts on features coming in VB9. Each post is well written and provides a nice overview and introduction to the given feature.

If you're trying to wrap your head around all the new stuff coming in VB9, his posts are a good place to start...

Here's the list so far...

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - The If Ternary Operator

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Nullable types

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Partial Methods

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Expression Trees

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Lambda Expressions

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Anonymous types

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Object Initializers

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Extension Methods

Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Implicitly Typed Local Variables

For the the future posts (and the other coolness he blogs about) make sure you click on through...

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