Whatever you may think of its business practices, Microsoft has always been top-notch when it comes to developer tools. Visual Studio is widely hailed as the best IDE out there, and .Net is an ...

Microsoft plans to share more information on its "Roslyn" compiler-as-a-service (CaaS) project during its annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit this week. Roslyn, at a high level, is Microsoft's ...

Microsoft will release a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of a new type of compiler its researchers have been building, code-named Project Roslyn, the company executive overseeing the C# programming ...

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers, .NET — ...

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 ...

At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft announced it is open sourcing its .NET compiler platform “ Roslyn ” – and then did exactly that, live on stage. Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg hit the ...

Microsoft Technical Fellow and coding legend Anders Hejlsberg looked down at his display, where the large button titled "Publish" lay underneath his finger. He pushed the button, which was linked to a ...

Microsoft made available this week for public testing a build of a new 64-bit .Net compiler built by the company's .Net runtime code-generation team. In a September 30 blog post on the .Net Framework ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...