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Feb 1, 2017
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Digging Deeper into the Visual Basic Language Strategy

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

Today Mads made an excellent post about our overall .NET Language Strategy. As I know this will raise a lot of questions in the VB community I wanted to take an entire post on the VB team blog to dive deeper into how VB fits into that strategy and why and what that means in practical terms for us as a community. Looking Back Six and half years ago...

Jan 31, 2017
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Relaunching the Visual Basic Team Blog

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

Last year we decided to retire this blog and consolidate content on the .NET team blog instead. The thinking at the time was that we weren’t really posting a lot of content to it and that there was so much overlap in content between the VB team blog and the C# FAQ that it would be simpler to just focus on the .NET blog. Since then my experience ...

Apr 6, 2015
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A Journey Through Open Source: The Trials & Triumphs in Roslyn's First Year of Open Source

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

"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure." — Gandalf, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien On April 3, 2014, Anders Hejlsberg set us on our open source journey when he made the .NET Compiler Platform (aka “Roslyn”) source code public live on stage in San Francisco. Without much open source experience to guide us (or a ...

Jan 10, 2015
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We're moving to GitHub!

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

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 ...

Nov 19, 2014
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Post-Release Goodies

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

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 reception...

Nov 12, 2014
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Short Videos Demonstrating What’s New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C#, VB, and F#

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

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 Preview, ...

Jun 24, 2014
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.NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") for the Rest of Us

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

WOW! It’s been a while -- almost exactly 4 years since yours truly, Beth Massi, last posted on the VB Team blog (although it’s cool to see I’m still in the tag cloud ;-)).  I’m honored to be a special guest post today. If you’ve been reading this team blog I’m sure you know by now that the .NET Compiler Platform (code named "...

May 15, 2014
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TechEd: "The Future of Visual Basic and C#" Video Now Available Online!

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

If you didn't get a change to make it to TechEd this year, fret not, we got it all on video for your viewing pleasure. Join Principal Program Managers Dustin Campbell and Mads Torgersen as they give you the inside scoop on the future of VB and C#. You'll learn about: And better than just showing off all of these cool features you can get ...

May 2, 2014
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QuickVB Goes Open Source!

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

Yesterday we published a copy of a fun “Roslyn”-powered retro editor for Visual Basic called QuickVB in honor of the 50th birthday of BASIC. We thought this was a neat application to showcase our love of BASIC but since then we’ve realized that it’s also a great example of how to put the power of the .NET Compiler Platform...