Visual Basic Blog

A group blog from members of the VB team

Why VB2017 only supports consuming ref returning methods

April 6, 2017 Apr 6, 2017 04/6/17
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Hi VBers, Last week Klaus wrote an amazing post detailing a number of improvements made to the Visual Basic IDE and language in Visual Studio 2017 (and he even forgot one, stay tuned for awesome). Regarding the new ref-return feature Jonathan Allen inquired as to why the design was so different from the one in C#. It's not uncommon for ...

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...

Digging Deeper into the Visual Basic Language Strategy

February 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 02/1/17
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...

Relaunching the Visual Basic Team Blog

January 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 01/31/17
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 ...

New VB T-Shirt Designs on the .NET Blog – Tell Us What You Think

May 21, 2015 May 21, 2015 05/21/15
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
[Update: You can get these cool T-Shirts @ the .NET Swag Store - get yours today!] Mads and Dustin showed off their cool VB and C# team t-shirts at BUILD and tons of people liked them and asked where they could get one. (image) So, we're thinking about making them available for purchase online. I've been working on some new designs and would...

Roslyn ships v1.0-rc2 with "Go-Live" license

May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 05/1/15
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
For the last six years you've heard us go on and on about this Roslyn thing and how it's the platform for the future and would change everything and that we were all-in on it and "it's going to be great just wait and see". Well, the wait is over. This morning, at BUILD, Principal Program Managers of the Managed Languages Team Mads Torgersen ...

Edit & Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15
VBTeam
It's the beginning of a new year! According to Back to the Future Part II, everyone will be riding hoverboards in a couple months (and, let's be honest, Doc would love the HoloLens). In the meantime, let's explore the enhancements we've made to the Visual Studio debugging experience. In CTP 6, we improved the edits supported by Edit & ...