I wish to thank everyone who waited to download the Beta 1 until after I finnished downloading it. The servers seemed to be relatively responsive. Anyway, I was able to successfully download and install the VPC image. Here's my initial impression of the VB9/LINQ portions.

  • The good news is that there the ThinqLinq sample I uploaded this week worked with only 1 modification. The connection string needed to be re-pointed to SqlExpress rather than a SQL 2005 instance because...
  • The VPC does not include the full SQL Server as the previous one did.
  • With a quick check of the VB 9 documentation posted in February, it appears that at least 3 features have not yet made it into the bits: Lambda expressions, "Join" syntax and Nullable (using the shortened date? syntax). I was hoping to have at least one of those in this drop.

Naturally, I have only had about 30 minutes to check the latest drop out at this point. I'll let you know if I find anything else with the new drop as I find them.

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