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Digging Deeper into the Visual Basic Language Strategy

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]February 1, 2017Feb 1, 201702/1/17

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...

Relaunching the Visual Basic Team Blog

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]January 31, 2017Jan 31, 201701/31/17

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 ...

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

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]April 6, 2015Apr 6, 201504/6/15

"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 ...

We're moving to GitHub!

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]January 10, 2015Jan 10, 201501/10/15

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 ...

Post-Release Goodies

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]November 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14

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#

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14

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 ...

.NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") for the Rest of Us

Beth Massi - MicrosoftJune 24, 2014Jun 24, 201406/24/14

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...

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

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]May 15, 2014May 15, 201405/15/14

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 ...

New video series on Windows Store App development using Visual Basic on Microsoft Virtual Academy

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]May 5, 2014May 5, 201405/5/14

Hey VB hackers, Microsoft Virtual Academy recently published a six-part series all about building modern apps for the Windows Store using your favorite language and staring Visual Basic MVP Bill Burrows and yours truly :) Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free service available to anyone to sharpen their skills and learn the latest and greatest ...

QuickVB Goes Open Source!

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]May 2, 2014May 2, 201405/2/14

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 ...

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