Amanda Silver, Paul Vick, and Erik Meijer VB 2005 Interview

Carl Franklin interviews the VBTeam's Amanda Silver and Paul Vick, plus the SQL Server group's Erik Meijer (a.k.a., VBTV's "Head in a Box") for the second half of the September 26, 2005 .NET Rocks show. The interview doesn't deal with LINQ in depth—consider it a sales pitch for VB 2005 with a low-level introduction to forthcoming LINQ features. The interview contains only about 10 minutes of LINQ-related conversation. Following is a log for the VB-related topics of the full WMV file: 00:24:27 - New VB 2005 language features 00:32:20 - LINQ introduction by Amanada and Paul 00:39:20 - Commercial break 00:41:45 - More LINQ and DLinq features 00:44:45 - Erik Meijer (on XLinq) 00:49:20 - More VB 2005 language features 01:04:11 - New features deferred to VB 9.0 from VB 8.0 (400 to 500 in the queue) 01:09:00 - Bill Gates' influence on VB 2005 and successors 01:11:00 - VB generics 01:14:40 - VB Express, programmer education, and hobbyist programmers 01:17:25 - Links to resources 01:20:00 - Coaching Anders Hejlsberg for a VB demonstration 01:24:00 - End Carl recorded the interview on September 14, 2005 at PDC 2005. --rj Technorati: LINQ DLinq XLinq