More Issues with VB 9.0 Samples in the Updated LINQ to SQL Documentation

It's evident that no one tech-edited or double-checked the VB 9.0 code examples in the "LINQ to SQL: .NET Language-Integrated Query for Relational Data" whitepaper Dinesh Kulkarni, Luca Bolognese, Matt Warren, Anders Hejlsberg, Kit George that was updated in March 2007.

I encountered the most egregious example of the authors' disdain for VB in the following code snippet from the "Stored Procedures Invocation" topic:

<StoredProcedure(Name:= "VariableResultShapes")> _
  <ResultType(typeof(Customer))> _
  <ResultType(typeof(Order))> _
public VariableResultShapes(shape As Integer?) As IMultipleResults
  Dim result As IExecuteResult = ExecuteMethodCallWithMultipleResults(Me, _
    CType(MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod(), MethodInfo), shape)
    return CType(result.ReturnValue, IMultipleResults)
End Function

The example uses C#'s typeof() instead of VB's GetType() function in lines 2 and 3, is missing the Function keyword on line 4, and uses the unsupported ? symbol for Nullable(Of T) on line 4. There are obvious errors on 50% of the lines of the example. Further, the following required Imports statements are not to found anywhere in the document:

Imports System.Data.Linq
Imports System.Data.Linq.Provider
Imports System.Reflection

It would behoove authors of whitepapers with a penchant for C# to at least check to see if their VB sample code compiles.

By the way, Kit George is a program manager on the VB team and presented the LINQ Overview Webcast on April 25, 2007.

Updated 4/27/2007: Dropped initial (off-topic) paragraphs.

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