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January 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Visual Basic 9.0 preview offered
Microsoft this week released a new Community Technology Preview of the planned Visual Basic 9.0 programming language, featuring XML integration and DLinq functionality, for querying over relational stores.
"VB 9.0 offers language extensions to support data-intensive programming in a unified way, i.e. creating, updating and querying relational databases, XML documents and object graphs," said S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, in his blog.
"The relationship between database programming and Visual Basic has always been a powerful one, but Visual Basic 9.0 takes it to a new level by unifying access to data independent of its source," Somasegar said.
The CTP is available by clicking here. The Visual Studio 2005 platform is necessary to use the CTP.
Posted by Paul Krill on January 24, 2006 02:24 PM
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For more details on the Visual Basic 9.0 CTP and implementation of DLinq for VB programmers, see:
http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/visual-basic-team-releases-january.html.
--rj
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