December 2007 Entries
A month or two ago, Paul Yuknewicz and I sat down to record a Hansselminutes podcast with Scott Hanselman, talking about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. It was a lot of fun, check it out!
Also, here's a little holiday love for VB from some Microsofties you might recognize:
I wanted to let people know that an (almost) final VB 9.0 language specification has been posted on the download center. The spec is missing some copy-edits from the documentation folks, but is otherwise complete. Since I'm not going to get a chance to incorporate the copy-edits until I am back from vacation in January, I wanted to get the spec out there for anyone interested in documentation of the XML features that weren't present in the previous version of the spec. (I apologize for the lateness of this vis-a-vis the release of the product itself, it's been a busy...
Just a little shout out to the latest project by that crazy language pimp, Erik Meijer. (He's the guy you have to thank for much of LINQ and especially for XML literals in VB.) In its own words, Volta is... [...] a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier,...