Episode 50: Behind the Scenes of the .NET Languages with Luca Bolognese




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Summary: Ever wonder how your favorite features from C#, VB.NET and F# get selected, implemented and finally reach your fingers? We did too and we found a great person to get the behind the scenes story from Building 41 in Redmond. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Luca Bolognese, former Group Program Manager at Microsoft, to discuss how the languages team decides which features to include in the .NET languages.  We learn also what is coming in NET 4.  Join us for this episode as we uncover some hints on what may be coming in the .NET future, something you don’t want to miss! Thanks to our guest this episode Luca Bolognese has been working for the past 10 years for Microsoft on Generics, ObjectSpaces, LINQ and Dynamic. Until recently he was Group Program Manager for C#, VB.NET and F#. Recently he joined Credit Suisse in London. Before working for Microsoft, Luca worked as C++ programmer and middle tier architect for a large company in Italy. Luca can be contacted via his blog: http://lucabolognese.wordpress.com/ Show Notes Luca’s PDC09 Session -- Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic Visual C# Developer Center Visual Basic Developer Center Microsoft F# Developer Center Immutable Object Defined Download Show