The Roslyn compiler handles the newer VB.NET version rather than the original Visual Basic dialect – and the request to open source VB6 has been turned down repeatedly by Microsoft, despite the ...

The Visual Studio team says it has released portions of its Visual Studio Test Platform to the open source community. It's available on Github here, with the docs here. It's currently available to ...

With that, he announced "Roslyn is now open source!" Huge applause from the audience at Build 2014 followed. With that push of a button -- live onstage during the Day 2 keynote -- Microsoft took what ...