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Nullable Types change the runtime

With Visual Studio 2005, the CTP August 2005 has new runtime features for Nullable types. 

Nullable types had unexpected behavior with boxing to Object (null is lost). This behavior could only be changed by changing the runtime.

Somasgear explains with Nulls not missing anymore the problems and reasons to change the runtime that late. Microsoft listens to what the community needs!

Christian

Posted: Aug 12 2005, 10:55 PM by CNagel | with 3 comment(s)
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... said:

Is nullable types really something the community needs? They add a whole bunch of complexity with little benefit. Every feature that Microsoft adds to some product could be rationalized by "Microsoft listens to what the community needs". There are at least a dozen things that the community needs more than nullable types. Are they doing any of those?
# August 12, 2005 7:13 PM

Christian said:

..., go to the MSDN Product Feedback Center: https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback. This feedback center is one of the improvements that show how Microsoft listens to the community. You can post ideas, bugs, and view ideas, bugs from others including Microsoft's feedback. Of course not everything is possible for the Visual Studio 2005 release.

Regarding your comment, "nullable types add a whole bunch of complexity with little benefit": I don't agree. Mapping database data types and also XML data types to an OO language was always a big problem. This is solved now!
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