Hanselminutes Podcast 92 - Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick
My ninety-second podcast is up. In this episode, I chat with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic.
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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I wonder if you could get Matt Curland in for a show some time (he was referenced in the podcast). He did some real cool stuff back in the day: subclassing windows, multithreading and function pointers in vb6.
I was wondering if the VB team will be implementing code blocks (like in ruby) anytime soon.
Now that vb is in first place, can we please have 1-based arrays and indexes?
For example, to remove the first character of a stringbuilder, let's refer to item number one!
option Count AsInRealLife
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dim sb as new stringbuilder
sb.append("abcdefgh")
sb.remove(1, 1)
Horray!
Best regards
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It would be great if you can blog in short about the highlighting features of futuristic VB
I am sure, you must have discussed Dynamic VB ( Vbx ) in your podcast.
I have trying to collect more information on Dynamic Vb ( The next version of VB ), but unfortunately it is not discussed as frequently as IronRuby and IronPython.
Just hoping that the new dynamic VB, challenges the other Dynamic languages, since Dynamic Languages is the way to go.
Thanks