Meeting the touring VB.NET Guys!
Steven Lees, the Group Program Manager for Visual Basic & Alan Griver , the Group Program Manager for Visual Studio Data Groups, visited Satyam today as a part of there Visual Basic . Net Tour.
There was a 2 hours of interesting session on what VS 2005 has for VB.NET developers.
I could recollect the following being discussed:
- Strongly Typed Resource Model
- The new 'My' keyword
- XML based code comments
- Smart Tags for Code correction help and suggestion for code fixes
- Insertting XML Based snippets
- Use the power of window developement and deployment as web
- Click Once Deployement
- Improved Look & Feel with Tool Strip and Menu Strip Controls
- The partial types
- The Class Designer
- Improved Debugging features
The smart tags that would help the developers for code correction interested everyone :). The XML based code snippets would be one thing that would really interest the third party vendors.
And the Class Designer of VS Team System 2005 is really cool!!!
They had more to cover, but time was not sufficient.
Seems like more was covered in the MSDN sessions, but I couldn't make it this time ;(