The secret in making Visual Basic programs run faster lies in the advanced compiler settings.

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages. Tough decisions have been made about the feature sets of the two languages, said Mads ...

"Roslyn" was the code name for Microsoft's .NET Compiler Platform. Hejlsberg's action opened up the C# and Visual Basic compilers as APIs, giving developers access that would have been unheard of from ...

Microsoft has released a Community Technology preview code-named Roslyn, that opens up its C# and Visual Basic compilers as APIs so developers can take advantage of the compiler's inner workings.

The basic idea of Microsoft’s Roslyn project is to look at the compiler as a service, which performs all steps from source code analysis to generate the. Net bytecode (CIL) code.