Roslyn and the future of .NET languages – Extensions

Boston Code Camp 22 materials: Slides | Extension Demo Code | Post on Language Features With the new code editors in Visual Studio 2015 now written around the Roslyn compiler a whole new level of extensibility is available both for built in features and user created extensions. If you’ve worked with Visual Studio extensibility before a Roslyn extension can a big improvement both in ease of coding and end user experience....

November 22, 2014 · 2 min · 414 words · John Bowen

Digesting the flood of announcements from Visual Studio Connect()

Day 1 of the Visual Studio Connect() event today was packed with announcements, some of which are pretty dramatic changes to the Microsoft development landscape. The obvious headline announcement which everyone is talking about (and will likely continue to) is the Open Sourcing and Mac/Linux support for the .NET Core Framework. This, along with the NuGet deployment mechanism for app-local copies of the framework, are going to be a huge shift in how ....

November 12, 2014 · 2 min · 360 words · John Bowen