Lucian's VBlog
Power3: Shared methods inside interfaces
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Allow shared methods...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 02/02/2010
Power4: Custom property templates and custom event templates
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Custom property...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 02/02/2010
Power2: Async and Resumable methods
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Async and Resumable...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 02/01/2010
Power1: REPL, and VBScript.NET
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] [The first set of ideas I...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 02/01/2010
Core9: readonly auto-properties
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Readonly...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/30/2010
Core8: Attribute Targets
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Attribute Targets. We...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/30/2010
Core7: Unify late-binder with early-binder
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Unify the late-binder...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/29/2010
Core6: "VB-Core" -- make the vb runtime optional without breaking CType &c.
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: "VB-Core". Add a...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/29/2010
Core5: Overloading on optional parameters
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Overloading on optional...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/29/2010
Core4: Flexibility with implementing properties
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Flexibility with...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/29/2010
Core10: Namespace Global
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: "Namespace Global"....
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
Core2: Inline and multi-line comments
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Allow comments within...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
Core3: Dynamic pseudo-type (scoped late binding)
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Scoped late binding...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
Core1: Iterators
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] IDEA: Add Iterators to VB....
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
Req0: Don't add to (or change) the language
[This post is part of a series, "wish-list for future versions of VB"] "What is this progress? What...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
A wish-list for future versions of VB
Visual Studio 2010 is almost out the door. Now is a good time to look at further features we want to...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
The limitations of Reflection.Emit
Question: Is Reflection.Emit a comprehensive API that lets you build any assembly you want? Answer:...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 11/28/2009
I'm a VB at PDC
Hello from PDC! The VB session was here: https://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT32 - I'll post the code...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 11/18/2009
I'm a VB
Check out the license plates on my new motorcycle!
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 08/23/2009
System.Diagnostics.Process: redirect StandardInput, StandardOutput, StandardError
Sometimes you want to launch an external utility and send input to it and also capture its output....
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 12/29/2008
Romeo and Juliette and Windows Azure
- Juliette sends a message "I'll take a drug which makes me look dead but I'm not really"2. Romeo...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 11/15/2008
Where are the SDK tools? Where is ildasm?
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\bin\ildasm.exeC:\Program Files\Microsoft...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 11/14/2008
My dog has no type (Expressions with "Superposition" types)
"My dog has no type.""How does he smell?""Awful!" This article originally was called "Expressions...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 11/05/2008
LiveRun - a VS plugin to see the output of your program immediately
Say you're demonstrating a compiler at a conference. What's the best way to do it? Should you just...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 10/16/2008
Reflection on COM objects
I'd like to own a "Gestalt Camera". When you photograph an object it wouldn't just save a flat...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 10/05/2008
Co- and contra-variance: how do I convert a List(Of Apple) into a List(Of Fruit)?
This is the first in a series of posts exploring how we might implement generic co- and...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 10/02/2008
Hello!
Hello! I'm starting this blog as a way to communicate with VB users -- to hear what you want, to...
Author: Lucian Wischik, MSFT Date: 10/02/2008