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October 2011 - Visual Basic Blog

Halloween: VB Style!

October 31, 2011 Oct 31, 2011 10/31/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Imagine this. It’s Halloween. You’ve got a costume party to go to at 7 but there’s one small hiccup – you’ve got no costume. As a VB programmer you’re used to coming up with nick-of-time solutions to all manner of complex business problems but all your coding skills won’t help you now. After all, you ...

Introducing the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP

October 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011 10/19/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
(Begin dramatic movie trailer music, slow PowerPoint slide show with cliché sound effects) October 2006 –VB Architect-emeritus Paul Vick responds via his blog to question by some completely random VB customer named Anthony about bootstrapping the VB compiler (rewriting it in VB), admits no definite plans yet but says ...