So a couple weeks ago I posted a note prior to the start of TechEd (Time for Tech Ed North America) talking about how if I could have gone this year the one session I would have been certain to not miss was DTL336 Future Directions for Visual Basic with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Aneja.  Well good news this video has been made publicly available.  The video is the full hour of the session and starts with Anders discussing the future of programming languages.

Before I give you the link, let me provide one important tip: Don’t watch it online… you can but you’ll not just below the default viewing window on the right hand side is a download button.  You’ll be tempted to click that – here again – pause and instead right click the download button.  Save the target (DTL336.wmv) to your local machine.  Attempting to watch a full hour of video over the network just isn’t going to be a good experience, and trying to do so in that tiny little window in the browser is just a measure of torture.  The video is available from Tech Ed online at:

http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=1d3d650b-a6b3-4c98-9240-571866969b89

Anders discussion of the future just as it relates to concurrent programming issues is enough to make the download worth it.  I think this was a great session, and speaks well to a very active future for Visual Basic.  I think someone in Redmond finally woke up wrt VB in terms of finally starting to provide the resources people need and which in the past were focused on C# so that more and more people will be able to move into VB on .NET and away from older technologies.