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What is Roslyn?
Traditionally, compilers are black boxes – source code goes in one end and object files or assemblies come out the other end. The Roslyn project changes that model by opening up the Visual Basic and C# compilers as APIs. These APIs allow tools and end-users to share in the wealth of information the compilers have about code. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/roslyn" target="_blank The Roslyn CTP previews the "next generation of language object models for code generation, analysis, and refactoring, and the upcoming support for scripting and interactive use of VB and C#." Here, we meet the Roslyn Project design team (and the authors of the http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27744" target="_blank The Roslyn Project technical paper ), Anders Hejlsberg, Karen Liu, Matt Warren, and Peter Golde . The point of this discussion is to meet the key thought leaders behind Roslyn and to discuss why Roslyn matters, how it works (briefly), what it affords, and what it doesnt enable. This is a very interesting project and Roslyn promises to make code refactoring tools easier to build and potentially more powerful, but at a deeper level—Roslyn provides a world class language parser and semantic analyzer to developers via C# or VB.NET. Its an open question as to what you may actually end up doing with Roslyn if you are not, say, a visual tools developer, but thats the point of this random interlude (aka a Charles interview...though we do talk extensively about what Roslyn can be used for). With Roslyn, you have a lot of power and information at your disposal. How are you going to use it? What will you build?
Download the CTP, play around with Roslyn and provide feedback to the team . They want to hear from you! <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:971b3b49f11e4167ad819f970002a5ea
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Traditionally, compilers are black boxes – source code goes in one end and object files or assemblies come out the other end. The Roslyn project changes that model by opening up the Visual Basic and C# compilers as APIs. These APIs allow tools and end-users to share in the wealth of information the compilers have about code. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/roslyn" target="_blank The Roslyn CTP previews the "next generation of language object models for code generation, analysis, and refactoring, and the upcoming support for scripting and interactive use of VB and C#." Here, we meet the Roslyn Project design team (and the authors of the http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27744" target="_blank The Roslyn Project technical paper ), Anders Hejlsberg, Karen Liu, Matt Warren, and Peter Golde . The point of this discussion is to meet the key thought leaders behind Roslyn and to discuss why Roslyn matters, how it works (briefly), what it affords, and what it doesnt enable. This is a very interesting project and Roslyn promises to make code refactoring tools easier to build and potentially more powerful, but at a deeper level—Roslyn provides a world class language parser and semantic analyzer to developers via C# or VB.NET. Its an open question as to what you may actually end up doing with Roslyn if you are not, say, a visual tools developer, but thats the point of this random interlude (aka a Charles interview...though we do talk extensively about what Roslyn can be used for). With Roslyn, you have a lot of power and information at your disposal. How are you going to use it? What will you build?
Download the CTP, play around with Roslyn and provide feedback to the team . They want to hear from you! <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:971b3b49f11e4167ad819f970002a5ea
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