New SKUs and a Release Date for Visual Studio 2010

[Cander]

Hmm... so the variant type is back, what a surprise. Wasn't Object supposed to be the type that handles what Variant did back in vb6 and older?

Why is .Net becoming so loosely typed anyways? I mean Linq, now Variant... this is becoming sad.

LINQ isn't loosely typed. And as I said above dynamic is useful for invoking of dynamic language methods. It will simplify Reflection for those languages and COM Interop. dynamic tells the compiler not to resolve the object until runtime. This allows you to use a dynamic variable in a stronly typed way like accessing fields and methods with dot notation without the compiler bombing out when you try to compile your code. So you could tie a dynamic variable to a dynamic object and call a method from it like

myDynamic.Method();

If myDynamic was declared as Object it would not compile.