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To answer what is in VB 10, have a look at the document on the vb futures site .  Basically the list is removal for the need of the line continuation character in many places, collection and array initializers, multi statement lambdas, and generic...
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Davy Brion posted about how events can keep object references alive.  In C# to rid yourself of this issue you have to manually unwire any event handler you wired.  In VB, it is a lot easier, all you have to do is use WithEvents and set the variable...
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Lucian has kicked off the conversation on generic variance in VB , so I thought I’d write a few posts outlining my perspectives on the subject… the first of which is this one, and what better place to start than to question whether or not it is really...
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It seems apparent that with computers as we currently know them, processors are now set to scale out not up.. that is, clock speeds aren’t rapidly growing, and certainly not doubling every year or two, instead the number of processors on a chip is. ...
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I was reading Kathleen’s post about what a C# developer needs to know about VB and thought I should clarify the bit about Booleans converted to numerics.  A Boolean in VB when converted to an integer type numeric, will be zero or the bitwise Not...
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