Optimise Visual Basic compiler Written by Peter Aitken, Contributor April 27, 2004 at 8:31 p.m. PT Most programmers compile their VB programs using the default advanced compiler settings.

private async Task DoSomeWork() { // ----- This method lacks an await statement, and therefore // generates C# compiler warning CS1998. } Such C# code will add warning CS1998 to your Visual Studio ...

It gives you a shorter feedback loop—which in general, when designing (UI, writing software, visual design etc.) ... Unfortunately, finding compiler errors isn't the only thing compilers do.

Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

If you read a compiler textbook, you'll discover that lexical analysis, specifically the part of the compiler that performs this task, goes by many different names. I'm just going to call it a scanner ...

Microsoft execs have been tight-lipped when I've tried to pin a ship date on "Roslyn," the Microsoft "compiler as a service project." But we now know that Roslyn most likely will be a post-Visual ...

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 ...