Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP. I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin 🙂 If you haven’t, do give it a try.

To recap – in the Roslyn CTP, we are previewing a powerful set of language services APIs that you can use within your apps to reason about VB and C# code. We are also previewing IDE extensibility points for VB and C# that will allow you to build rich code refactorings, quick fixes etc. that run inside Visual Studio.

In this post, I just wanted to point out a couple of tools that you may be interested in if you are working with the CTP – the Roslyn Syntax Visualizers. You can read more about these visualizers and how to install and use them on the following blog post – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2011/10/19/roslyn-syntax-visualizers.aspx

The visualizers ship as samples in the CTP and allow you to visually inspect and explore Roslyn Syntax Trees (below screenshot shows an example). You can use these visualizers as debugging aids when you develop your own applications / code refactorings using the Roslyn APIs.

Happy Coding! 🙂

Shyam Namboodiripad
Software Development Engineer in Test (Roslyn Compilers Team)