This past week, I was given twenty minutes to present at the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association (IndyNDA.org) on some of the new features in the Microsoft programming languages that are coming in the next releases. I was also supposed to talk on some of the stuff coming in Visual Studio "2010." It is interesting to note that although I had twenty minutes that could be stretched to thirty, the same topics were quickly overviewed at the Microsoft PDC over the course of more than five hours.
Needless to say, I left out nearly everything!
What I didn't leave out were a couple of the simplest features coming in C# 4 and Visual Basic 10. I'll cover those same features in this and my next few blog entries.
This same code could be formatted in a variety of ways using various spacing. With Visual Basic, however, you've always had to remember to include the space-underscores at the end of each lineto indicate that the code continues to the next.
Now, all you have to do is add a "quote-semicolon" and you are practically writing C#!