Posts tagged ‘vb’

LINQ and XLINQ with Visual Basic Literals

I really liked the XML expressiveness of Visual Basic, let’s build a very simple MSN History Search Engine using LINQ and XML Literals in Visual Basic.
The best thing is those literals could be used in LINQ expressions. Remember the simple XML file that MSN stores as a history.

.@AttributeName : Accesses the attribute element in XML
.<ElementName> […]

C# 3.0 vs. VB 9.0 and XML in the Language

Here is the summary of new language features as mentioned on the “What’s new on ORCAS

C# 3.0 Language Support: This CTP implements all of the C#3.0 language features from the May LINQ CTP including:

Query Expressions

Object and Collection Initializers

Extension Methods

Local Variable Type Inference and Anonymous Types

Lambdas bound to Delegates and Expression trees

Complete design-time support: Intellisense, Formatting, […]