Lisa Feigenbaum Microsoft Program Manager Session Code: DEV314

Lap Around Visual Basic in VS 2010 Session Objectives Discover what’s available See how to take advantage of new features Agenda New Editor & Shell VB IDE VB Language VS 2010 &.NET 4 Highlights

New Editor & Shell WPF User Interface New Look, Rich Experience Start Page Remove or pin projects, View directory, Customize Editor Zoom, Multi-Monitor, Block selection, Outlining Extensibility Visual Studio Gallery, Extension Manager

New Editor & Shell Lisa Feigenbaum Program Manager Microsoft

“There’s an extension for that!”

Code-Focused VB IDE Understanding Highlight References Type Colorization Navigating Navigate To: Files & Members, Ctrl+, Writing & Testing IntelliSense: Non-aggressive, Substring, PascalCase Generate From Usage: Type, Method, Property

Code-Focused VB IDE Lisa Feigenbaum Program Manager Microsoft

VB Language Syntax Enhancements Multiline Statement Lambdas Auto-implemented Properties Collection Initializers Array Literals Implicit Line Continuation Co/contravariance Office Deployment: No PIA Dynamic Language Interop on the DLR

VB Language Lisa Feigenbaum Program Manager Microsoft

Dynamic Versus Static Dynamic Languages Simple and succinctImplicitly typedMeta-programmingNo compilation Static Languages RobustPerformantIntelligent toolsBetter scaling

Open Source versus Commercial

Python Binder Ruby Binder COM Binder JavaScript Binder Object Binder Dynamic Languages On.NET Dynamic Language Runtime Expression Trees Dynamic Dispatch Call Site Caching IronPython IronRuby C# VB.NET Others…

ScriptObject calc = GetCalculator(); object res = calc.Invoke("Add", 10, 20); int sum = Convert.ToInt32(res); ScriptObject calc = GetCalculator(); object res = calc.Invoke("Add", 10, 20); int sum = Convert.ToInt32(res); Dim calc As ScriptObject = GetCalculator() Dim res As Object = calc.Invoke("Add", 10, 20) Dim sum As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(res) Dim calc As ScriptObject = GetCalculator() Dim res As Object = calc.Invoke("Add", 10, 20) Dim sum As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(res) VB 10, C# 4.0 And Dynamic Calculator calc = GetCalculator(); int sum = calc.Add(10, 20); Calculator calc = GetCalculator(); int sum = calc.Add(10, 20); object calc = GetCalculator(); Type calcType = calc.GetType(); object res = calcType.InvokeMember("Add", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, new object[] { 10, 20 }); int sum = Convert.ToInt32(res); object calc = GetCalculator(); Type calcType = calc.GetType(); object res = calcType.InvokeMember("Add", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, new object[] { 10, 20 }); int sum = Convert.ToInt32(res); dynamic calc = GetCalculator(); int sum = calc.Add(10, 20); dynamic calc = GetCalculator(); int sum = calc.Add(10, 20); Dynamic method invocation Dynamic conversion Dim calc As Calculator = GetCalculator() Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20) Dim calc As Calculator = GetCalculator() Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20) Dim calc As Object = GetCalculator() Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20) Dim calc As Object = GetCalculator() Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20) Dim calc As Object = GetCalculator() Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20) Dim calc As Object = GetCalculator() Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20) Visual C# Visual Basic Static binding Dynamic binding (pre-VS 2010) Dynamic binding (pre-VS 2010) Binding to ScriptObjects (JavaScript) Statically typed to be dynamic Dynamic method invocation Dynamic conversion

VB & C# 2010 Language FeatureVBC# Auto-implemented Properties Collection Initializers Array Literals Statement Lambdas Implicit Line ContinuationN/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 2010 Already exists in VS 2008

VB & C# 2010 IDE Feature VBC# 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, Field IntelliSense: Consume First Mode IntelliSense: Substring & Camel-Case Match Navigate To Highlight References Call Hierarchy New in VS 2010 Already exists in VS 2008

VS 2010 /.NET 4 Highlights DGML Graphs WPF Drag & Drop IntelliTrace Parallel Extensions New Editor & Shell

Summary What We’ve Seen New Editor & Shell VB IDE VB Language VS 2010 &.NET 4 Highlights Call to Action Download Beta2 Use the resources and try it out Tell us your feedback

Resources Visual Basic Developer Center VB 2010 Resources Blogs (VB Team) (Lisa) Visual Basic Forums US/tag/visualbasic/forums/ Connect

VB 2010 Resources

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