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Dec 20, 2013
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Updated license for September 2012 Roslyn preview available (MattGe)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we ended up with a little too much time between previews, to our subsequent embarrassment. In fact, it came to our attention recently that the licensing for the most “recent” CTP (and admittedly I use the term “recent” loosely, given that it was released in September 2012) is set to ...

Dec 16, 2013
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Throwing the Big Switch on Roslyn (Matt Gertz, VS Managed Languages Development Manager)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

So, the entryway to my house has eight light switches along the wall.  Two of them control the porch lights, and another two work the same entryway light (despite the switches being only a couple of feet apart).  I haven’t the foggiest idea what the rest of the switches do.  I’ve been scared to try them out, actually.&...

Jul 17, 2013
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No new VB and C# Language Features in VS 2013

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

As you can see in the VS2013 Preview, we have not added new language features to Visual Basic and C# in the next version of Visual Studio. I’d like to share our thinking on this. There are essentially two main reasons why we chose not to evolve the languages this time around.The most important is that we just shipped new versions of these two...