Transcript Session Code: DEV314 Lisa Feigenbaum Microsoft Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa Lap Around Visual Basic in VS 2010 Session Objectives Discover what’s available See how to take advantage.

Session Code: DEV314
Lisa Feigenbaum
Microsoft Program Manager
http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa
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
Static
Languages
Simple and succinct
Robust
Implicitly typed
Performant
Meta-programming
Intelligent tools
No compilation
Better scaling
Open Source versus Commercial
Dynamic Languages On .NET
IronPython
IronRuby
C#
VB.NET
Others…
Dynamic Language Runtime
Expression Trees
Object
Binder
JavaScript
Binder
Dynamic Dispatch
Python
Binder
Call Site Caching
Ruby
Binder
COM
Binder
VB 10, C# 4.0 And Dynamic
Visual C#
Visual Basic
Calculator calc = GetCalculator();
int sum = calc.Add(10, 20);
Dim calc As Calculator = GetCalculator()
Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20)
Dim calc As Object = GetCalculator()
object calc = GetCalculator();
Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20)
Type calcType = calc.GetType(); Static binding
object res =
Binding to
calcType.InvokeMember("Add",
Dim calc As ScriptObject = GetCalculator()
BindingFlags.InvokeMethod,
null,
ScriptObjects
Dim res As Object = calc.Invoke("Add", 10, 20)
new object[]
(JavaScript){ 10, 20 }); Dim sum As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(res)
int sum = Convert.ToInt32(res);
Dynamic binding
ScriptObject calc = GetCalculator();
(pre-VS 2010)
object
res
=
calc.Invoke("Add",
10,
20);
Statically typed to
int sum = Convert.ToInt32(res);
be dynamic
dynamic calc = GetCalculator();
int sum = calc.Add(10, 20);
Dynamic
conversion
Dynamic method
invocation
Dim calc As Object = GetCalculator()
Dim sum As Integer = calc.Add(10, 20)
Dynamic
conversion
Dynamic method
invocation
VB & C# 2010 Language
Feature
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 2010
Already exists in VS 2008
VB & C# 2010 IDE
Feature
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, 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
http://msdn.com/vbasic
VB 2010 Resources
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/dd819153.aspx
Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam (VB Team)
http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa (Lisa)
Visual Basic Forums
http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/enUS/tag/visualbasic/forums/
Connect
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
VB 2010 Resources
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