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LINQSQO goes RTM

I just released the RTM bits of LINQSQO on CodePlex . This project was one of my first LINQ-related ones and goes back to the early PDC 05 days where LINQ was first shown to the world. The project contains a custom implementation of the LINQ Standard Query Operators used in LINQ. More specifically, it's...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 11-22-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - XML Support

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover a feature unique to Visual Basic: XML Support . In VB 9.0, XML has become a first class citizen of the language, meaning you can use XML literals to build XML fragments (sounds pretty logical isn't it?)...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 09-04-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Runtime Agility

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Runtime Agility . Before we continue, I have to warn you: this is a HUGE feature even though it hasn't been covered that much yet in the blogosphere. Historically, Visual Basic has been a language that's...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 09-03-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Relaxed delegates

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Relaxed delegates , a small but useful feature that boosts developer convenience. In VB 8.0 the use of delegates was very strict concerning the methods supported to be called through a delegate. Two samples...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 09-02-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Friend Assemblies

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Friend Assemblies , something that has been supported by C# (and the .NET Framework more generally) since Whidbey ( see here ). What this feature allows you to do is to expose Friend types (which are by definition...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 09-01-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - The If Ternary Operator

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover the If Ternary Operator , which is a true ternary operator, something that Visual Basic has been lacking in previous releases (contrast to C-based languages' ?: operator). If there's one thing I'm...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 08-31-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Partial Methods

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Partial Methods , a feature also available in C# 3.0 ( see here ). Partial methods are a logical extension to partial classes, a feature that was introduced in the VB 8.0 and C# 2.0 "Whidbey" wave...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 08-29-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Expression Trees

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Expression Trees , a feature also available in C# 3.0 ( see here ). In the previous post of this series we did take a closer look at lambda expressions ; expression trees are very closely related to lambda expressions...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 08-28-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Lambda Expressions

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Lambda Expressions , a feature also available in C# 3.0 ( see here ). So, what's this feature called after a Greek letter? Lambda expressions are derived from the domain of functional programming, or in...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 08-27-2007
Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Object Initializers

Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Object Initializers , a feature also available in C# 3.0 ( see here ). The problem this feature aims to fix is the following: how many times did you need to use some type and did you find youself looking at...

Posted to B# .NET Blog (Weblog) by bart on 08-25-2007

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