VB 10 thoughts (part 2)

Implied Interfaces

@ Head — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:34:12 GMT

One of the many things I love about VB is it's explicit interface mapping . It's the beauty of

re: VB 10 thoughts (part 2)

bill — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:38:35 GMT

yep ! I plan to write about some visual concpets a bit further down the track. It takes a bit longer as I need to actually do some screen shots so as peopel can grasp what I mean.

re: VB 10 thoughts (part 2)

Bob Bingham — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:31:35 GMT

I think I would pull for an IDE change on 9 and 10. Colors or shading should work fine, I would think.

Another thing the IDE might indicate is reference vs value types. It's easy for new and even experienced VB programmers to get confused on this. Maybe have slightly different shades for the variables. Also add a help bubble to "byval" and "byref" in sub/function definitions that's sensitive to the variable type and could spell out exactly what will happen. Those changes would help out in learning, IMHO.