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December 2014 - Visual Basic Blog

Better together: Visual Basic 14 and the Visual Studio 2015 Debugger

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
"Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! ..." If you hadn't heard, Visual Studio 2015 will support the use of lambda expressions in the debugger windows. (image) We're all very excited to deliver on this longstanding TOP customer request. When LINQ was introduced in 2008 it was a game changer for the way .NET developers think about and code with ...

New Language Features in Visual Basic 14

December 9, 2014 Dec 9, 2014 12/9/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
(image) "Visual Basic 14" is the version of Visual Basic that will ship with Visual Studio 2015. In this blog post I'll talk specifically about the VB language improvements in this release. (Separately, there are a whole host of IDE and project-system improvements as well). There are two overall themes to the language improvements: (1) Make ...