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

May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 05/1/15
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
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 ...

Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for VB and C#

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Download 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, empower others to build...

Visual Studio “14” CTP Now Available

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
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 ...

Roslyn September 2012 CTP Available for Download!

September 17, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 09/17/12
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
VB Enthusiasts,Following last Wednesday’s official launch of Visual Studio 2012, we’re excited to announce that the Roslyn September 2012 CTP is now available for download and provides support for VS 2012 RTM. Please note that Visual Studio 2010 is no longer supported by this CTP.We’ve been hard at work since the first public...

Announcing Microsoft “Roslyn” June 2012 CTP

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Hey, fellow VBs,Today, we're excited to announce that the Roslyn June 2012 CTP is now available for download!Since the first public release of Roslyn, we’ve been hard at work implementing new language features, addressing top customer feedback from the October CTP, iterating on our API design and improving performance across our IDE and ...