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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 ...

New Language Features in Visual Basic 14 (animated)

November 26, 2014 Nov 26, 2014 11/26/14
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 ...

Edit and Continue survey results

May 20, 2014 May 20, 2014 05/20/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Thanks everybody for all the great feedback! We've received hundreds of replies since last week with detailed information and concrete examples for us to review. We are closing the survey today and have started to process the tons of data you have provided. The overwhelming majority of you have told us that Edit and ...

Help make Edit and Continue better!

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
UPDATE 2014-05-20: We've received enough responses and the survey is now closed. Thanks everyone! Hey VB developers! Do you get tired of seeing this box (I know I do)? (image) Tell us about it! The Visual Studio team would like your anonymous feedback on improving Edit and Continue (E&C) when developing .NET applications. This survey...

Happy 50th Birthday, BASIC!

May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014 05/1/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
UPDATE: QuickVB is now open source! The Visual Basic team joins Dartmouth and developers worldwide whose lives have been touched by this amazing language in wishing Dartmouth BASIC (and indeed the whole BASIC family of languages) a very happy 50th birthday (and many more) today! So many of us here on the Managed Languages team got our start ...

Visualizing Roslyn Syntax Trees

April 17, 2014 Apr 17, 2014 04/17/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Hello everyone! I hope you had a chance to catch the recent announcements around the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”). If not, I encourage you to view Anders’s presentation at Build 2014 (skip to 1:10:28). If you haven’t already, download the previews and take them for a spin! What’s included? The Roslyn compiler codebase is now ...

Taking a tour of Roslyn

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
It’s a big day for us on the Managed Languages team! As announced at the //BUILD conference earlier today, and as posted by Soma on his blog, we are not just delivering a new preview of Roslyn to all of you, but are in fact moving all of the compiler code to open source! The code will be released and maintained by MS Open Tech, who are our ...

Roslyn performance (Matt Gertz)

January 15, 2014 Jan 15, 2014 01/15/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
(For the next few posts, I’m going to introduce readers to the different feature teams in the Managed Languages org.  Today, I’m starting this with a focus on the performance team.)Back in 2000, I found myself assigned to be the performance lead of the Visual Basic team, and my first assigned goal was to drive the performance ...

No new VB and C# Language Features in VS 2013

July 17, 2013 Jul 17, 2013 07/17/13
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 ...