Anthony D. Green [MSFT], Author at Visual Basic Blog

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We're moving to GitHub!

January 10th, 2015

It’s official. We’re moving to GitHub!We are moving the Roslyn OSS code from CodePlex to GitHub. GitHub has a vibrant open source community that we want to actively be a part of and contribute to. We are also going to take this time to modify our pull request process. Please see below for more details:WHEN: This upcoming ...

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

December 11th, 2014

"Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! ..."If you hadn't heard, Visual Studio 2015 will support the use of lambda expressions in the debugger windows.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 data. So...

New Language Features in Visual Basic 14

December 9th, 2014

"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 common ...

New Language Features in Visual Basic 14 (animated)

November 26th, 2014

Post-Release Goodies

November 19th, 2014

The Rosetta lander Philae wasn't the only thing in space last week. Our launch of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and our announcement to open source the full .NET server stack were out of this world. After all, it’s not every day that you can say your work trended higher than Kim Kardashian on Twitter.After an overwhelmingly positive ...

Short Videos Demonstrating What’s New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C#, VB, and F#

November 12th, 2014

Our team has put together a set of short videos to highlight some of our work in Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Check them out to learn more about what’s new in C# and VB, how F# can be good for enterprise, and how to improve your code quality with “analyzers”. To learn more about our team’s work in Visual Studio 2015 ...

Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for VB and C#

November 12th, 2014

Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview and review the release notes.Over the past several years, our team has been hard at work re-implementing the full language stacks for Visual Basic and C#. While this was a long investment, we knew that an improved stack with a cleaner architecture would allow our team to work faster, empower others to build...

VB Universal Windows App Part 2 (for the developer): sharing XAML, Assets and Code

June 15th, 2014

This is Part 2 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series:In Part 1 we set ourselves up by registering the app in the two Dev Centers, and by creating the basic structure in Solution Explorer.In Part 2 today, we're going to share! From a developer perspective, the benefit of universal Windows apps is in sharing as much as possible ...

VB Universal Windows App Part 1: Getting Started

June 15th, 2014

This is Part 1 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: Recently in April 2014, Microsoft announced Universal Windows Apps. I thought I'd take an old Silverlight paddle game and turn it into a VB Universal Windows App. Here's how the finished game looks, on devices and in the stores: What is a Universal Windows App?A "...

Visual Studio "14" CTP Now Available

June 3rd, 2014

As announced today by Soma, we've just released the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the next version of Visual Studio. This is doubly-exciting as this is the first public release of a version of Visual Studio powered by "Roslyn" by default. At BUILD we released the "Roslyn" End User Preview which extends Visual Studio 2013 by ...