I enjoyed the presentation by Bill Sempf at this month’s Central Ohio .NET Developers Group even if it was a little disorganized. I think Mr. Sempf and I share a certain scatterbrain quality though his achievements point to an ability to focus deeply when needed. He’s like smarter more extroverted version of the Bill writing this post. And we share a similar hairline.
Bill discussed some of the changes coming in C# 4.0 and how some of the smaller changes that started in C# 3.0 are part of a larger strategy to make things like LINQ possible, and make COM interop work more smoothly. He also pointed out some additions to Visual Studio that may be helpful when doing Test Driven Development. Visual Studio has been rewritten in WPF for version 2010 so go get more RAM.
A lot of the changes to C# are to help it compete with dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, and to make it not suck for automating Microsoft Office. Oh no. It’s VB with braces. At least it doesn’t have DIMs and SUBs.
Pizza was provided by Information Control Corporation (ICC), a company based in Columbus that (if I heard right) Bill Sempf works with as a consultant. ICC has released an open source framework called MVC4WPF. Thanks for the framework, and the pizza.
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