The poster for Silverlight mentions support for VB.net and a language called VBx.
VBx stands for VB10 as it turns out, and it will become a dynamic language that you can script with and will run anywhere that the new Dynamic Language Runtime will run, say on a Mac as well as Windows. The bad news (which is predictable these days) is that it’s not in the Silverlight 1.1 alpha, and is planned to be in a Visual Studio release after Orcas, so it’s ‘just’ VB.NET and C# support for 1.1, although there may be the new .NET DLR-integrated/interoperable versions of JavaScript, IronRuby and IronPython in there. In Silverlight, all these languages act as the control logic for WPF-subset UI.
Get the the more official details.
Check out this Mix07 session that includes a demo of VBx from about 21:30, building using a text editor on a Mac.
Haha that’s the first thing I noticed on the poster, and I didn’t know what it was. Thanks for explaining it!
Comment by Mack D. Male — Wednesday May 2 2007 @ 18:48