February 2008 Entries
WARNING: This is a speculative post. Caveat emptor. One of the things that we'd like to address in the next version is line continuations. We know that they tend to annoy many developers who want to break their logical lines across multiple physical lines, and we've gotten many requests to get rid of them altogether. Unfortunately, there's a reason we haven't just dropped them--they actually are needed in certain scenarios. For example, take the following contrived example: Sub Main()
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Sub
If I remove the line continuation, I'll now get a...
WARNING: This is a speculative post. Caveat emptor. Several weeks ago, I gave a presentation entitled Bringing Scripting (Back) to Visual Basic at the Lang .NET 2008 conference. A video of the presentation has now been posted, so you can check it out for yourself. (The presentation was also covered by EWeek in an article entitled Bringing Sexy Back to Visual Basic.) The main theme of the presentation is the same one I've been talking about on and off over the past year or two: moving Visual Basic back towards it's scripting roots. The main thrust of this presentation was...
Just a quick note for those who might care--I haven't given up blogging just yet, even though January was the first time in the history of this blog that I went without saying anything for a month. My wife, kids and I went on a big vacation to the Dominican Republic in January, with a swing by the East Coast for a baptism for good measure, and that took up most of the month! Then, just as I was starting to dig myself out of the hole from that trip, I was off for another week. So needless to say,...