C# to get Edit and Continue

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C# to get Edit and Continue

OK Visual Basic had this for years and then lost it for VB .NET. Everyone knew that was just temporary and that it would be back in Visual Studio .NET 2005. But today I saw the news that C# is going to have it as well. In fact it will be in the Community Technical Preview that is being released in a week or two. Why the change? Well, to be honest it is because so many people asked for it that the development team worked extra hard to make it happen. Now that is what I call listening to the customer!

posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 8:48 PM by AlfredTwo

# @ Saturday, October 16, 2004 8:48 PM

That's awesome. I think that'll really make C# 2.0 THE language to work in...since it still has extra things that VB.NET doesn't...(not that there is anything wrong with VB.NET at all). From what I've seen, the C# Team is just great!

AdamMB

# @ Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:43 PM

Brilliant news, will make c# even better to develop using. Anyway I am not a fan of VB anyway, it does ot semm right having no { or ; VB programmers will probarly have a go at me now;)

mpp

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:14 AM

Wow, that would have really come in handy on our IC04 project. Now I just have to get our SA to configure our server so we can debug webservices.

theHaig

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 2:04 AM

I'd have to agree with mpp there. { and ; without the _ makes C# a lot easier to understand (at least for me). In addition to that, Edit and Continue is gona be there. This is great news. ^_^

dukz

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:18 AM

curly braces and semi colons are the only thing I don't like about C#. I tend to think of them as being there for the compiler writers and not for the programmers.

AlfredTwo

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:38 AM

I think the { and ; makes the code more readble for humans too, not only the compiler. But I guess that is because I'm used to it.

prismejon

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 4:15 AM

hey that's a cool new (old) feature! i've been waiting for that as well.. i hate it when i have to recompile and re do all the stuffs i did to get again in to the function/procedure i have edited only with one line of code :)

jasin14

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 6:34 AM

well, one more reason to go for C#!!

shengsin

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:08 AM

I presume both the development team of this languages are working hard to make this language stand on par and compliment one another.The bottomline would be a feature in C# would be incorporated in VB sooner or later and vice-versa.. :)

Vico

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 4:17 PM

ALL .NET languages are (and should) be made equal. :)

punzki

# @ Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:32 PM

Yay for Edit & Continue, and long live the ; and {} and one more thing, ! and not NOT.

jalt1

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