August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed
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Language Primer
You have a few language choices available to you as a .NET programmer: Visual Basic, C#, C++, or F#. Which you choose is typically a result of your history, style, and intent. Developers who have worked with past incarnations of VB or another basic language will find they are at home inside Visual Basic. The language (including templates, tools, wizards, and so on) is all about developer productivity. Developers whose roots are in a C-based language (C++, Java, and so on) and want similar productivity in a straightforward way gravitate toward C#. Of course some developers will just want to stay in C++ even for their .NET applications.
New in Visual Studio 2010 is the F# language. This language has been available in various states ...