Re: IDE products roadmap updated

Florent Ouchet wrote:

most of the new work in Highlander will be focused
on .NET 2.0. Highlander will add Delphi.NET support for generic types,
partial classes, and nullable types, and all WinForms, Web Services, and
ADO.NET support will be converted to support .NET 2.0.

I don't see any mention of anonymous methods or iterators. I hope
that's just JK in a rush, not something that won't happen until 2008 -
generics may be the headline feature, but their use tends to be
concentrated in low-level code. You don't see all that many brackets
in most C# 2 code.

Anonymous methods, though, make a huge difference. People say things
like "how did we get along without them?" (Slightly tongue in cheek,
obviously, but I've had this discussion with a number of C# 2 users,
and all seem to agree that anonymous methods have a bigger impact on
the programmer experience than generics.)

Iterators are less important but still pretty nice when you want to
enumerate a recursive structure, like all the controls on a WinForm,
or all the files in a particular directory and all its subdirectories.

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