By Darryl K. Taft
2008-02-01
The VB development team is looking at revitalizing scripting in the core .Net languages.
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft is planning to bring the sexy, uh, the scripting back to Visual Basic.
In a talk entitled “Bringing Scripting (Back) to Visual Basic” at the Lang.Net conference here Jan. 31, Paul Vick, Microsoft’s principal architect for Visual Basic said now that his team has shipped Visual Basic 2008, “We found ourselves looking back a lot.”
What the team is looking back on are the days when Visual Basic was used as a scripting tool. Yet, Vick made sure to qualify his talk as an “aspirational” one.
“The main point is that the VB team is extremely interested in revitalizing scripting in the core .Net languages,” Vick said in an interview.
According to Vick, the first major hurdle is “re-architecting our compiler and editor technology so that it can be used in non-Visual Studio contexts.”
He said the VB team is starting by looking at big hosts like Office, “although we have no firm plans there at the moment,” Vick said. “But we'd like to democratize it further so that any application can easily add the power of VB to their application.”
source:eweek.com
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