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What Matters to Mort at the PDC?

The PDC is an incredible whirlwind. If you're a Mort and at the PDC, I need your help. I'm doing a BOF session for Morts, but there's no way I'll get to all the sessions that might matter to Mort. Here's some things I think we might want to talk about at the BOF:
 
  1. Office 12, does the Office team finally get it, that they are a platform for Mort?
  2. Avalon, do you think we'll be using any of that glitzy stuff in IT apps?
  3. Workflow, can Microsoft get this one right? (I'm attending mostly of the workflow sessions today)
  4. Visual Basic, looking ahead at VB9, does LINQ and the other enhancements turn you on? Would it make you give up C# (if you went that way when you migrated to .NET)?
  5. Indigo, um… I'll let somebody else talk about that, I've had my say.
  6. What am I missing?
 
If you have ideas about what matters to Mort, post them in the comments or catch up with me at the PDC. I'll be in a PluralSight shirt (but remember, I'm not an employee, just a very satisfied customer).
 
Posted Sep 14 2005, 09:07 AM by john-cavnar-johnson
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Marlowe wrote re: What Matters to Mort at the PDC?
on 09-14-2005 7:00 PM
Why would you switch from C#, assuming you went in that direction? C# actually already has (in Whidbey) some of the features slated for VB9 (nullable types, relaxed delegates) and will also fully support the new query syntax, lambda expressions, type inference ("var") and object literal notation in its next release. Are there any features exclusive to VB9 (other than the traditional advantages for late-binding/COM invocation)?
John Cavnar-Johnson wrote re: What Matters to Mort at the PDC?
on 09-15-2005 8:57 AM
A simple feature comparision doesn't do justice to the increasing differences in the two languages. If you look closely at how the features are incorporated into the languages you can see a very interesting trend. I'll post a longer analysis a little later. I'm in Paul Vick's VB Futures talk right now.

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