ANN: Future of .NET, Whidbey, Orcas

[Thomas Scheidegger [MVP]]

Some new details to the next .NET and Visual Studio.NET versions:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Jul03/07-29InnovationListPR.asp

New 'Roadmap' up to 2005 !
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx

 

[Luiz Miranda]

Hi

Great news to VB.NET comunity

+ Edit and Continue
+ XML-based code documentation
+ partial types
+ operator overloading
+ unsigned data types
+ generics

Luiz Miranda

 

[Bill Priess]

There has been an ongoing thread in both this group (C#) and also in the
ASP.NET group debating about the IDE enhancements and the language
enhancements for the Whidbey release. Check them out. The debate has been
great between the VB and C# camps...

Bill P.