{"id":213,"date":"2014-05-02T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2014\/05\/02\/quickvb-goes-open-source\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:38:15","slug":"quickvb-goes-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/quickvb-goes-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickVB Goes Open Source!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/vbteam\/archive\/2014\/05\/01\/happy-50th-birthday-basic.aspx\">Yesterday<\/a> we published a copy of a fun &ldquo;Roslyn&rdquo;-powered retro editor for Visual Basic called <strong>QuickVB<\/strong> in honor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/basicfifty\/\">50th birthday of BASIC<\/a>. We thought this was a neat application to showcase our love of BASIC but since then we&rsquo;ve realized that it&rsquo;s also a great example of how to put the power of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/roslyn.codeplex.com\/\">.NET Compiler Platform (&ldquo;Roslyn&rdquo;)<\/a><\/strong> APIs to use.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of openness we&rsquo;ve decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/quickvb.codeplex.com\/\">open source QuickVB as a sample project on CodePlex<\/a> so that others may tinker with it and learn from it.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Turner, Ian Halliday, Anthony D. Green<\/strong> on behalf of the <strong>Managed Languages<\/strong> (VB, C#, F#) team<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we published a copy of a fun &ldquo;Roslyn&rdquo;-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&rsquo;ve realized that it&rsquo;s also a great example of how to put the power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,195],"tags":[26,35],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-samples-and-downloads","category-visual-basic","tag-alex-turner","tag-anthony-d-green"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Yesterday we published a copy of a fun &ldquo;Roslyn&rdquo;-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&rsquo;ve realized that it&rsquo;s also a great example of how to put the power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}