Talk: What's new in VB11 (VS11 Beta)

Talk: What's new in VB11

This talk details some of what's new in VB11. (Just some: there were too many improvements to cover them all in just one talk).

Win8 support
VBCore (=> new platform support for VB on Phone, XNA, MicroFramework, Kinect, Surface...)
Async
CallerMemberInfo
Iterators
View Call Hierarchy
Namespace Global
AnyCpu32bitPreferred allows EnC on x64 machines
Better codespit and pretty-listing
Better performance
Better error-reporting for lambdas, and (not yet in VS11beta but will be) no more 102-error-limit for vbc/msbuild
Fixed language corners in ForEach, ReturnArrayLiterals, OptionalParameterOverloads, GenericOverloadResolution

• I gave this talk at DevConnections2012 in Vegas on 2012.93.26
  • Watch video online
  • Download source_code.zip [82k, requires VS11]
  • Download script.docx [29k]
  • Download slides.pptx [3.4mb]
     
• Similar material elsewhere
  • Blog post by Jonathan Aneja - read article "What's new in VB11" on the VB Team Blog
  • MSDN article "Breaking Changes in VB11"

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2012
  Let's go studying!

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2012
  Nice! Thanks for sharing.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2012
  > no more 102-error-limit for vbc You have no idea how big an improvement this is

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2012
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 04, 2013
  It may be a little late to ask, but does the current (current ISO image link) VS2012 Express for desktop have the 102 error limit lifted in vbc? I'm STILL getting a complete stop and I need to know how many errors there are in a VB6 converted application!!! Hope someone monitors this ancient thread...