My Notes from Bill Burrows, myVBProf.com

Bill Burrows, his presentation, “Programming With XML Using Visual Basic 9.0” produced notes. After my Carl-Franklin misunderstanding years ago, it may help to explicitly state that when I take the time to write notes about your work that means I am impressed with your work and I find it useful. Certainly, no more gratuitous compliments are needed. The notes:

• Type inference statements can cause runtime errors. The suggestion is to use type inference with reference types—never value types. Also you will get low-performance, “late binding” when you attempt type inference with an expression that is not for a local variable. Bill Burrows covers this topic in “Getting the RSS feed.”
• XML Literal statements do not require line continuation characters. Someone noticed this back in 2005. It’s news to me!
• The old Let keyword returns in VB9! It is part of the LINQ Query Expression Format.

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