The much-loved debugging feature, edit-and-continue, will find its way not only back to VB next year, but to C# as well. .NET programmers, such as DevX Executive Editor A. Russell Jones, are excited not only to use E&C in C# but to head off the language-partisan arguments that had lain ahead.
by A. Russell Jones
October 18, 2004
n Monday morning, S. "Soma" Somasegar, Microsoft's corporate vice president for the developer division, made the unexpected announcement, via his official MSDN-hosted Web log (http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/), that C# will get the much-loved edit-and-continue (E&C) feature in Visual Studio 2005. While it has been known for some time that E&C would be brought back to VB.NET in the upcoming 2005 version of the language, until today, Microsoft had said E&C would not be in C#.
For those who came to .NET from languages other than VB.NET, E&C was one of the most popular features of classic VB, allowing programmers to alter code while debugging applications. Without E&C, the debugging process requires one to stop the application, alter the code, recompile, restart the application, and then navigate through it to reach the altered point in the runtime. Unfortunately, Microsoft left this productivity feature out of the original and subsequent point update releases of VB.NET, but has long promised that it will return next year in the next major version—the release of the .NET framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
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n Monday morning, S. "Soma" Somasegar, Microsoft's corporate vice president for the developer division, made the unexpected announcement, via his official MSDN-hosted Web log (
