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Whats new in .NET 2.0 for VB?

Author
21 Mar 2006 1:04 PM
Brian Henry
Is there a listing out there anywhere that lists what is new in .NET 2.0
mainly in VB? I've seen simple lists like oh we have all these new controls,
but I want a class list and such also. thanks!

Author
21 Mar 2006 2:04 PM
Larry Lard
Brian Henry wrote:
> Is there a listing out there anywhere that lists what is new in .NET 2.0
> mainly in VB? I've seen simple lists like oh we have all these new controls,
> but I want a class list and such also. thanks!

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/whatsnew/>

It's all there and in links therefrom. Personally, the stuffs I find
myself using the most are: generics, the Using block, and the new
dataset designer. The My namespace makes a lot of things 'one liners'
that were tedious or impossible before.

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Author
21 Mar 2006 4:59 PM
Chris
Larry Lard wrote:
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> Brian Henry wrote:
>
>>Is there a listing out there anywhere that lists what is new in .NET 2.0
>>mainly in VB? I've seen simple lists like oh we have all these new controls,
>>but I want a class list and such also. thanks!
>
>
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/whatsnew/>
>
> It's all there and in links therefrom. Personally, the stuffs I find
> myself using the most are: generics, the Using block, and the new
> dataset designer. The My namespace makes a lot of things 'one liners'
> that were tedious or impossible before.
>

Edit and Continue tops my list!

Chris
Author
21 Mar 2006 5:48 PM
dgk
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:59:05 -0500, Chris <no@spam.com> wrote:

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>Larry Lard wrote:
>> Brian Henry wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a listing out there anywhere that lists what is new in .NET 2.0
>>>mainly in VB? I've seen simple lists like oh we have all these new controls,
>>>but I want a class list and such also. thanks!
>>
>>
>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/whatsnew/>
>>
>> It's all there and in links therefrom. Personally, the stuffs I find
>> myself using the most are: generics, the Using block, and the new
>> dataset designer. The My namespace makes a lot of things 'one liners'
>> that were tedious or impossible before.
>>
>
>Edit and Continue tops my list!
>

That is handy. It doesn't seem to work for secondary projects in the
solution though. I haven't looked into it too much but E&C only seems
to work for the main project.
Author
21 Mar 2006 8:02 PM
Ken Halter
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> Edit and Continue tops my list!
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> Chris

Y'all are way too easy to please <g>

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Author
22 Mar 2006 2:36 AM
Michael D. Ober
From a VB 6 perspective - having the compiler work in background and
generate a list of code errors is near the top.  This one item has
significantly reduced my debugging time.

Mike Ober.

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> "Chris" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> > Edit and Continue tops my list!
> >
> > Chris
>
> Y'all are way too easy to please <g>
>
> --
> Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB (visiting from VB6 world) - http://www.vbsight.com
> Please keep all discussions in the groups..
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Author
22 Mar 2006 6:35 AM
Steven Nagy
>> generate a list of code errors

Is this even new?
Author
22 Mar 2006 12:55 PM
Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]
Steven,
Its been there since VS 2002, however I find it one of the significant
improvements over VB6. Especially when compared to VB6's one error at a time
in a modal dialog box...

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Jay [MVP - Outlook]
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Author
23 Mar 2006 3:06 AM
Michael D. Ober
I tried VS 2002 and hated it.  When VS 2005 Beta came out, I gave it a try
and started switching.

Mike.

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> Steven,
> Its been there since VS 2002, however I find it one of the significant
> improvements over VB6. Especially when compared to VB6's one error at a
time
> in a modal dialog box...
>
> --
> Hope this helps
> Jay [MVP - Outlook]
> .NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
> T.S. Bradley - http://www.tsbradley.net
>
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> "Steven Nagy" <learndot***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> | >> generate a list of code errors
> |
> | Is this even new?
> |
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>
Author
23 Mar 2006 3:59 AM
Steven Nagy
>> I tried VS 2002 and hated it.

All comments seem to be about Visual Studio rather than VB as the OP
asked for.
Hating VS2002 is like saying "I hate HTML because I didn't like
Dreamweaver 3".
Or I don't like to drive cars because once I drove a '74 Escort and it
handled really badly!
Or I don't eat vegetables because I don't like Peas.

You get the idea....
Author
22 Mar 2006 6:41 AM
Cor Ligthert [MVP]
Michael,

> From a VB 6 perspective - having the compiler work in background and
> generate a list of code errors is near the top.  This one item has
> significantly reduced my debugging time.
>
As for me, however "Edit and Continue" has now again significantly increased
my debugging time. The option above was more than enough for me.

However, in my opinion is the without few knowledge about VB.Net talking VB6
advocacy strong.

Cor

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>> "Chris" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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>> > Edit and Continue tops my list!
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>> > Chris
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>> Y'all are way too easy to please <g>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB (visiting from VB6 world) - http://www.vbsight.com
>> Please keep all discussions in the groups..
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Author
22 Mar 2006 12:43 PM
Alex Clark
>>
>> Edit and Continue tops my list!
>>

Except it's unbelievably slow on my machines, despite them both being P4
3Ghz with over 1GB of ram each :-(
Author
23 Mar 2006 9:00 AM
Pieter
That's indeed a pain in the *ass, Visual Studio 2005 is much slower than
2003. It really eats RAM (200 megabyte for only openign a solution), and it
takes minutes to open a form.

Visual Studio 2005 itself is really buggy also Really a shame :-/

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> Except it's unbelievably slow on my machines, despite them both being P4
> 3Ghz with over 1GB of ram each :-(
Author
23 Mar 2006 9:27 AM
Cor Ligthert [MVP]
Pieter,

> That's indeed a pain in the *ass, Visual Studio 2005 is much slower than
> 2003. It really eats RAM (200 megabyte for only openign a solution), and
> it takes minutes to open a form.
>
> Visual Studio 2005 itself is really buggy also Really a shame :-/
>

Who is among those who have screamed that it should be there while others
like me asked let it be there as soon as is working well?

The current version looks likes that it was impossible to give the release
some more time just because of that screaming. In my opinion should
developers not feed marketing guys to hit other developers.

Cor


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"Pieter" <pietercou***@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> That's indeed a pain in the *ass, Visual Studio 2005 is much slower than
> 2003. It really eats RAM (200 megabyte for only openign a solution), and
> it takes minutes to open a form.
>
> Visual Studio 2005 itself is really buggy also Really a shame :-/
>
> "Alex Clark" <honeycomb@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uHrKq4aTGHA.2004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Except it's unbelievably slow on my machines, despite them both being P4
>> 3Ghz with over 1GB of ram each :-(
>
>
Author
23 Mar 2006 1:48 PM
Pieter
"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
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> Who is among those who have screamed that it should be there while others
> like me asked let it be there as soon as is working well?

I used the Beta's and Release candidates, and actually I really
wanted/thought that Microsoft would postpone the release, but they didn't...
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Author
22 Mar 2006 9:16 AM
Pieter
TableLayoutPanel isn't that bad either (although it's buggy).

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> Brian Henry wrote:
>> Is there a listing out there anywhere that lists what is new in .NET 2.0
>> mainly in VB? I've seen simple lists like oh we have all these new
>> controls,
>> but I want a class list and such also. thanks!
>
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/whatsnew/>
>
> It's all there and in links therefrom. Personally, the stuffs I find
> myself using the most are: generics, the Using block, and the new
> dataset designer. The My namespace makes a lot of things 'one liners'
> that were tedious or impossible before.
>
> --
> Larry Lard
> Replies to group please
>