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Roslyn Primer – Part I: Anatomy of a Compiler

October 2, 2017 Oct 2, 2017 10/2/17
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
So, you’ve heard that VB (and C#) are open source now and you want to dive in and contribute. If you haven’t spent your life building compilers, you probably don’t know where to start. No worries, I’ll walk you through it. This post is the first of a series of blog posts focused on the Roslyn codebase. They’re intended as a primer ...

Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…

April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
...letting your code do absolutely nothing! We’ve all been there, one way or the other. Either as users of an app or as the developer to whom users complained to: When a typical Win32 app is waiting for an operation to complete, we often get to see something like this: (image) In discussions about how to get a handle on such scenarios there...

What's New in Visual Basic 2017

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
Visual Studio 2017 just shipped, and with it shipped a new version of Visual Basic. With the new language strategy of the .NET Languages, the focus is again on Visual Basic’s original virtue: Provide editor, debugging and refactoring tools as well as language feature to ease complex tasks and boost every VB’s developer productivity without...