{"id":93,"date":"2014-06-24T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T00:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2014\/06\/24\/net-compiler-platform-roslyn-for-the-rest-of-us\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:37:39","slug":"net-compiler-platform-roslyn-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/net-compiler-platform-roslyn-for-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":".NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") for the Rest of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

WOW! It\u2019s been a while — almost exactly 4 years since yours truly, Beth Massi, last posted on the VB Team blog<\/a> (although it\u2019s cool to see I\u2019m still in the tag cloud ;-)).  I\u2019m honored to be a special guest post today. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been reading this team blog I\u2019m sure you know by now that the .NET Compiler Platform (code named "Roslyn") is the next generation of the Visual Basic and C# .NET compilers. But what does that mean? I was up in Redmond a couple weeks ago and I caught up with Dustin Campbell (Program Manager on the Managed Languages Team) and sat him down to explain Roslyn to me, a .NET developer. <\/em>I mean, let\u2019s face it folks, I\u2019m not a compiler geek. I\u2019m a busy, practical, programmer who trusts their compiler will just work<\/em>. So what\u2019s in it for me? <\/p>\n

It turns out that Roslyn brings a ton of value to anyone writing VB or C# code. By making it much easier for partners to build amazing tools and for language and IDE features to get implemented much faster, developers everywhere will benefit from the faster innovation. Dustin also shows off some of the new IDE features like quick fixes and new refactorings for both VB and C# that are available in the Visual Studio "14" CTP<\/a>.   <\/p>\n

Watch: .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") for the Rest of Us<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks, Dustin, for setting me straight! <\/p>\n

For more information on Roslyn and to try it out, see "Installing the Preview" section of the Codeplex site at https:\/\/roslyn.codeplex.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy,
–Beth Massi<\/a>, Visual Studio Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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