Context: I’m sitting in Bill and Nick’s VB2005 session at Code Camp Oz.
The following four questions have been asked of the audience.
- Does VB2005 implement generics fully?
- Does VB2005 come with refactoring tools?
- Why do you love VB2005?
- Name three My.* namespaces.
So, in an attempt to ensure that no VB2005 material leaks out into the developer community I have taken it upon myself to answer these questions so that I can dispose of the giveaways appropriately.
- Visual Basic guys don’t like to admit that their language doesn’t have a feature, so I would have to say yes!
- Yes and no. There will be a third party product which Microsoft has licensed that uses VS2005 extensibility to supply refactoring to VB2005 users. It is not included in the VS2005 BETA 2 package at the moment but is available as a seperate download.
- Poem
Dim mort As Developer = New VBDeveloper()
mort.Productivity = mort.Productivity + 1
AddHandler mort.FiveOClock, AddressOf GoHome
AddHandler mort.CodeCompiles, AddressOf TeaseCSharpDev
AddHandler mort.LearnOfNewLanguageFeature, AddressOf ComplainBitterly
mort.OnErrorResumeNext()
End Poem
- My.Application, My.Computer, My.User and My.WebServices, My.Eyes.Are.Bleeding . . .
Enjoy your pointy arrows guys!