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

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]May 21, 2015May 21, 201505/21/15

[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. So, we're thinking about making them available for purchase online. I've been working on some new designs and would love to...

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

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]May 1, 2015May 1, 201505/1/15

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 ...

Lowercase Keywords Revisited (not an April Fools' Day joke this time, I promise)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]April 2, 2015Apr 2, 201504/2/15

Hey all, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's April Fools' Day post. I thought it was a fun way to kick off an experiment I'd like to conduct and in this post I'll tell you how you can actually try out lowercase keywords for VB on your machine right now no matter what version of VS you're using (no joke). You see, a few years back Architect-emeritus...

How "Roslyn" Finally Unshackled Visual Basic From The Tyranny of the Pretty-Lister

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]April 1, 2015Apr 1, 201504/1/15

UPDATE 2015-04-02: After reading this post be sure to read the follow-up post! I was chatting with an old Microsoftie a while ago and he let me in on the real story behind Visual Basic’s at times aggressive reformatting of code. It turns out that it didn’t actually start out as a feature but as a consequence of how the IDE was ...

Better together: Visual Basic 14 and the Visual Studio 2015 Debugger

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]December 11, 2014Dec 11, 201412/11/14

"Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! ..." If you hadn't heard, Visual Studio 2015 will support the use of lambda expressions in the debugger windows. We're all very excited to deliver on this longstanding TOP customer request. When LINQ was introduced in 2008 it was a game changer for the way .NET developers think about and code with data. So...

Visual Studio "14" CTP Now Available

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]June 3, 2014Jun 3, 201406/3/14

As announced today by Soma, we've just released the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the next version of Visual Studio. This is doubly-exciting as this is the first public release of a version of Visual Studio powered by "Roslyn" by default. At BUILD we released the "Roslyn" End User Preview which extends Visual Studio 2013 by ...

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 ...

Help make Edit and Continue better!

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]May 13, 2014May 13, 201405/13/14

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)? 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 can take as ...

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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