Newsgroup: it.comp.lang.visual-basic
Titolo: [!] .NET/Visual Studio/Visual Basic .NET 2004

Tratto dal sito microsoft:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx#whidbey
Visual Studio code name Whidbey (2004)
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Visual Basic
The Whidbey release of Visual Basic will radically improve developer
productivity while continuing to provide full access to the .NET Framework.
Key design goals for Visual Basic Whidbey include: reducing the amount of
code required to accomplish common tasks, dramatically reducing programming
errors at design time, simplifying data access, improving the RAD debugging
experience, and delivering high-end features for advanced Visual Basic
developers.
First, Visual Basic Whidbey will reduce the coding associated with many
common programming tasks by more than 50 percent. New runtime objects and
methods will provide direct access to the most frequently used functionality
within the .NET Framework. In addition, code editor enhancements will
automatically author common programming tasks, enabling developers to "fill
in the blanks" and focus on solving the problem at hand rather than on
language syntax.
Second, new features in the Visual Basic code editor will dramatically
reduce programming errors for both beginner and advanced developers at
design-time. Providing similar functionality to the Microsoft Word spelling
and grammar check, Visual Basic Whidbey will suggest corrections for common
syntax errors. In addition, the compiler will warn developers of
semantically incorrect code that would otherwise cause runtime errors, such
attempts to access code elements prior to initialization.
Third, Visual Basic Whidbey will vastly enhance the experience of
manipulating and retrieving data. Simplified data source design from within
the development environment will be available for local and remote data,
business objects, and remote XML Web services. Whidbey will also reintroduce
the ability to create data-bound applications without writing a single line
of code. Ideal for many common data access scenarios, this feature will
enable developers to automatically generate customizable, data-bound UI when
a table or columns are dragged and dropped onto a form.
Fourth, Whidbey will deliver a debugging experience that is both powerful
and familiar to the Visual Basic developer. With the reintroduction of Edit
and Continue, developers will be able to modify and test source code without
stopping and restarting the debugging session. This iterative development
and debug cycle, combined with advanced error correction and code analysis
in break mode, provide developers using Visual Basic with the most powerful
and flexible debugging experience ever.
Finally, for the more advanced Visual Basic developer, language enhancements
include support for operator overloading, unsigned data types, inline
XML-based code documentation, and partial types. In addition, developers
using Visual Basic will have access to a type-safe, high-performance,
compile time-verified version of generics that promote code reuse across a
variety of data types.
Like its predecessors, Visual Basic Whidbey will focus on enabling
developers to rapidly develop applications that span all tiers. Planned
enhancements across the debugger, visual designers, code editor, and
language will greatly enhance productivity, enabling developers to build
robust, elegant applications faster and deploy them across the Web, a
business group, or an enterprise.
Ciao
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 Visual Studio code name Whidbey (2004)
Per l'upgrade è indispensabile il 2003 o è valido anche per il 2002 ?
Non ho letto o mi è sfuggito.
giuseppeD