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VB8 Language Specification

For those who want to know what's up in the world of VB, the VB8 Language Spec is available. Mostly, it looks like the language keeps creeping towards the C# language model, so much so that I always recommend that anyone using MS VS simply go the C# route, as it is more true to the .Net model. Not much to report from the Language Innovation department:

  • Operator Overloading
  • Generics
  • IsNot Keyword
  • Using Keyword
  • Unsigned Integer Types
  • Partial Classes
  • Background Worker Object

(Note: In typical MS fashion, the VB Spec is an executable file, but the file is just a zip executable that contains a Word document.)

By Chris Rathman at 2005-06-12 23:46 | General | 2 comments | other blogs | 6909 reads