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A group blog from members of the VB team
November 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14The Rosetta lander Philae wasn’t the only thing in space last week. Our launch of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and our announcement to open source the full .NET server stack were out of this world. After all, it’s not every day that you can say your work trended higher than Kim Kardashian on Twitter.
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Our team has put together a set of short videos to highlight some of our work in Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Check them out to learn more about what’s new in C# and VB, how F# can be good for enterprise,
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview and review the release notes.
Over the past several years, our team has been hard at work re-implementing the full language stacks for Visual Basic and C#. While this was a long investment, we knew that an improved stack with a cleaner architecture would allow our team to work faster,
May 13, 2014May 13, 201405/13/14UPDATE 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.
June 27, 2012Jun 27, 201206/27/12You can use Visual Studio 2012 RC to download and install samples from the MSDN Code Gallery. You can download only the samples you need, or you can download one or more Sample Packs, which group several samples that relate to a technology or topic.
February 28, 2012Feb 28, 201202/28/12As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download. This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps,
March 26, 2010Mar 26, 201003/26/10The implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010 provided an opportunity to improve the code editing experience in XML literals embedded expressions. In Visual Studio 2008, pressing Enter inside an embedded expression would result in the cursor being positioned to the left of the end embedded expression tag.
May 14, 2009May 14, 200905/14/09CodeRush Xpress is a FREE Visual Studio 2008 add-in containing 60+ refactorings, 7 editing features, and full support for C# and Visual Basic.
Download here
CodeRush Xpress includes the following features.
Duplicate Line
Highlight All References
Increase or Reduce Selection
Smart Clipboard Operations
Generate from Using (TDD)
Quick Navigation Window
Quick File Navigation
In addition,
May 4, 2009May 4, 200905/4/09Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor!. The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other editing functionality,
December 19, 2008Dec 19, 200812/19/08Quick Search has to be one of my favorite features in the 2010 CTP. I find myself using it all the time! I hope you will find it useful in your development too. The Quick Search functionality has become a pretty common feature in development environments today.
