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

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.

Issues with use of Microsoft's Visual Basic 2005 compiler in large projects have prompted the company to release a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering) update to address major problems.

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 ...

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.

Roslyn features open source C# and Visual Basic compilers offering code analysis APIs. DuoCode is another tool for compiling to JavaScript without actually writing JavaScript.