Visual Studio 10 beta

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Just in case anyone is interested you can download beta for the new visual studio 10 from here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/dd819153.aspx

Some interesting features are;

• VB no longer needs _
  to go to the next line of a _
  statement which is great news
• There's better support for lambda in VB which is one of my favourite features in C#
• Another feature brought over from C# is object initialisers which is also very handy.

There are loads of other cool improvements to both vb and c# so maybe worth checking out.

Dom

 

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Will be checking it out when I have the time.

 

That whole Lambda stuff is just plain confusing to my poor VB brain.

That said, since we are only now beginning to think about moving to 2008, i think i have time to look into it.

 

Lambdas amazing for iteration through things.

(c# style)

if you have an IList<Book> Books for example you can just filter by going

Books.Where(book => book.Title.Contains("Microsoft"))

Brilliant!

You can sort of do this in vb at the moment with lots of nasty func stuff but its not as clean.
As far as I understand the plan is to clean it all up.

Dom

 

I will definately check it out. Visual Studio 2008 is a top notch product. It's so awesome I've even paid £750 quid out of my pocket for Professional version.