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

May 21, 2015 May 21, 2015 05/21/15
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
[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. (image) So, we're thinking about making them available for purchase online. I've been working on some new designs and ...

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 ...

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

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
"Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! ..." If you hadn't heard, Visual Studio 2015 will support the use of lambda expressions in the debugger windows. (image) 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 ...

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 ...

Help make Edit and Continue better!

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
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)? (image) 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...

*New* video series on Windows Store App development using Visual Basic on Microsoft Virtual Academy

May 5, 2014 May 5, 2014 05/5/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
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 :) (image) Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free service available to anyone to sharpen their skills and learn the latest and ...

QuickVB Goes Open Source!

May 2, 2014 May 2, 2014 05/2/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
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 ...