The Future of Visual Basic

No sooner than we have a release candidate build of Visual Basic 2005, we start getting lots of details on the next version of Visual Basic ( ver. 9 / "Orcas").   The epicenter of this new information is here, from where you can click to additional articles and blog entries from the VB Dev Team, including these from Amanda , Paul, and Yag
But be sure to first get the "big picture" from this VB9 Overview article.

There is alot of information on the new LINQ (Language Integrated Query) technology - integrated querying for objects, databases and XML.  This is probably because it is the most radical and innovative language enhancement.   Some of the stuff is just obviously cool, and some of it may require some time to "sink in" - I was fortunate enough to have particiapted in a SDR a few months ago, so I am well along the "grokking" path :-)Download the LINQ trial bits  (they run on top of the VS 2005 RC that was released to MSDN earlier this week) and check it out !