Visual Studio Dot Net..Opinons!!

[S@NSIS]

Hi,
Has anyone else here downloaded and installed the beta of Microsofts Dot Net development studio?
If so, what do you think of it?

I got it on Monday and have to say I'm quite impressed. Bit tricky to get used to at first (need some books to be released) but you soon get the hang of it!

Quite cool how can you can import stuff into your programs and use more than one language. ie. Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic to use VB etc...

Also, almost everything is OO including things like normal integer variables. You can declare a variable, as you normally would Dim x As Integer, and then x has its own methods such as x.ToBoolean, x.Format etc...

So...anyone else used it yet??

Cheers

Shaun

[G.Kumaraguru]

I've heard there are many changes to Visual Basic in VB.net

For Example... VB6 long is now VB.net Integer
and VB6 Integer is VB.Net Short Int.

All these changes are to support the Multi language
Runtimes.

[tumblingdown]

Aye, and you can write a class in vb, and i can be used in c#, which can be used in c++, which can be used in vb, which ...



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I heard there will be a common runtime library, that sounds good.

I told our pet dinosaur - I mean cobol programmer :) he could write web pages in cobol, he started mumbling about batch jobs, IOs and smart ass Windows programmers and wandered off back to the coffee room. Poor guy.