Lisa Feigenbaum Community Program Manager Microsoft Corporation SESSION CODE: DEV04-INT.

JUNE 7-10, 2010 | NEW ORLEANS, LA

Meet the Visual Basic TeamLisa FeigenbaumCommunity Program ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

SESSION CODE: DEV04-INT

Session Agenda

Language Trends & Directions

IDE Features & Future Plans

Q&A with the Team

Trends

Declarative

ConcurrentDynamic

Declarative

ConcurrentDynamic

Declarative programming“More what, less how”

VS 2010:

Languages (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby)

F# Functional LanguageVB Statement Lambdas

PlatformPLINQLINQ to SharePoint

Declarative

Concurrent programmingParallelism: CPU (multicore) & IO (connected)

Declarative

ConcurrentDynamic Concurrent

VS 2010:

Languages (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby)

F# Parallel Map

PlatformTask Parallel Library, PLINQConcurrent Data StructuresC++ Concurrency RuntimeSilverlight (Asynchronous)

Dynamic programmingDynamic World: Web, Data, Languages

Declarative

ConcurrentDynamicDynamic

VS 2010:

Languages (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby)

IronPython & IronRuby Dynamic LanguagesC# & VB Dynamic Binding

PlatformDynamic Language Runtime

Co-Evolution

VB & C# 2010 LanguageFeature VB C#

Auto-implemented Properties

Collection Initializers

Array Literals

Statement Lambdas

Implicit Line Continuation N/A

Named/Optional Parameters

Latebinding support (dynamic)

Omit ref on COM calls

Indexed Properties

Interop with Dynamic Languages

Co/contravariance

PIA deployment not needed

New in VS 2010Already exists in VS 2008

VB & C# 2010 IDEFeature VB C#

Generate From Usage: Generate Method

Type colorization

Background Squiggles: Top Level Analysis

IntelliSense: Builder UI

IntelliSense: Prefix Filtering Completion List

Generate From Usage: Generate Type, Constructor, Property, FieldIntelliSense: Consume First Mode

IntelliSense: Substring & Camel-Case Match

Navigate To

Highlight References

Call Hierarchy

New in VS 2010Already exists in VS 2008

Development Tasks

Understanding

Navigating

Writing

Modifying

Debugging

Testing

Compiler as a Service

CompilerCompilerSource codeSource code

SourceFile

Source codeSource code

.NET Assembly

Class

Field

public Foo

privatestring

X

LanguageObject Model

Read-Eval-Print Loop

Hosting inother contexts

DSL Embedding

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Visual Basic Team Members

Anthony GreenVB Compiler Program [email protected]

Dustin CampbellC# & VB IDE Program [email protected]

VB Team Blog:http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam

VB Dev Center: http://msdn.com/vbasic

Lisa FeigenbaumVS Languages Community Program [email protected] http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa

Lucian WischikVB Language Program [email protected] http://blogs.msdn.com/lucian

Q & A

Resources

Visual Basic Developer Center: http://msdn.com/vbasic

www.microsoft.com/teched

Sessions On-Demand & Community Microsoft Certification & Training Resources

www.microsoft.com/learning

Learning

Resources for Developers

http://microsoft.com/msdn

Languages Sessions @ TechEd 2010Day Time Title Presenter RoomMon 6/7 13:00-14:15 DEV406: Integrating Dynamic Languages into Your Enterprise Applications Jesus Rodriguez Rm 279Mon 6/7 13:00-14:15 DEV06-INT: VS 2010 Debugger Tips & Tricks Habib Heydarian Rm 349Mon 6/7 14:45-16:00 DEV204: New IDE and Language Features in Visual Studio 2010 Using Visual Basic and C# Ken Getz Rm 272Mon 6/7 14:45-16:00 DEV314: Manycore and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Huseyin Yildiz Rm 288Mon 6/7 16:30-17:45 DEV09-INT: Visual Basic and C# IDE Tips and Tricks Dustin Campbell Rm 347Tue 6/8 13:30-14:45 DEV404: C# in the Big World Mads Torgersen Rm 291Tue 6/8 15:15-16:30 DEV316: Modern Programming with C++Ox in Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Kate Gregory Auditorium BTue 6/8 17:00-18:15 DEV315: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks Dustin Campbell, Scott Cate Auditorium BTue 6/8 17:00-18:15 ARC205: Patterns of Parallel Programming Ade Miller Rm 276Wed 6/9 08:00-09:15 DEV10-INT: Using Dynamic Languages to build Scriptable Applications Dino Viehland Rm 347Wed 6/9 08:00-09:15 DEV319: Scale and Productivity for C++ Developers with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Boris Jabes Rm 298Wed 6/9 09:45-11:00 DEV401 Advanced Use of the New Visual Basic 2010 Language Features Lucian Wischik Rm 356Wed 6/9 11:45-13:00 DEV408: Task Parallel Library: Design Principles and Best Practices Shy Cohen Rm 283Wed 6/9 13:30-14:45 DEV03-INT: Meet the C# Team Lisa, Alex, Eric, Mads Rm 346Wed 6/9 17:00-18:15 DEV320: Simplify XML Processing Using LINQ to XML Paul Sheriff Rm 387Thu 6/10 08:00-09:15 DEV317: Profiling and Debugging Parallel Code with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Huseyin Yildiz Rm 293Thu 6/10 08:00-09:15 DEV407: Maintaining and Modernizing Existing Applications with Visual Studio 2010 Kav Latiolais Rm 356Thu 6/10 09:45-11:00 DEV307: F# in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Luke Hoban Rm 276Thu 6/10 15:15-16:30 DEV04-INT: Meet the Visual Basic Team Lisa, Anthony, Dustin, Lucian Rm 346Thu 6/10 17:00-18:15 DEV11–INT: IronPython Tools Dino Viehland Rm 347Hands On Lab DEV05-HOL: Introduction to F# La Nouvelle BallroomHands On Lab DEV12-HOL: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Office Programmability La Nouvelle Ballroom

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