VB resources

VB -> C#

• All resx files now moved to project root #551
• Register event handlers for DesignerGenerated #550
• Improve qualification with arguments of unknown type #481
• Omit conversion in string concatenation where possible #508
• Use ToString for numeric types rather than Conversions.ToString
• Convert optional ref parameters - fixes #91
• Always convert Call statement to method call #445
• Avoid compilation errors when converting const Dates #213
• Evaluate simple compile time conversions within const declarations

VB -> C# resource fixes

VB -> C#

• Avoid extra newlines in doc comments #334
• Avoid duplicate generated constructors #543
• Comparisons of value/generic types to Nothing now convert to the correct corresponding C# 8 operator
• Resources are now correctly namespaced after conversion #540
• LangVersion is now set to "Latest" in csproj e87fef11
• Improve Winforms designer event experience after conversion #547
• Don't output solution conversion for in-memory solution file
• Empty files are no longer skipped #423
• Specify type suffix for decimal and float literals containing decimal point #548

VS2017 hotfix

Vsix

• Fixes conversion in VS2017

Faster project conversion, better feedback

• Known issue: Breaks VS2017 support - please use 8.0.1
• Improve performance and feedback for large projects containing large files

API

• IEnumerable<Task> becomes IAsyncEnumerable
• Upgraded target framework from netstandard 1.3 to netstandard 2.0
• Introduced cancellation token

VB -> C#

• Convert "Handles" in some previously missed cases #530
• Wrap event handlers in lambda where needed #474
• Streamline trailing else if 810de96
• Use less error-prone, more performant null/default comparisons 4de1978
• Convert "{}" to "Array.Empty()" #495
• Convert inferred anonymous member names without duplicating name #480
• Convert "!" operator to element access #479
• Fix async method default return statements #478
• Convert multi-dimensional array initializers correctly #539

C# -> VB

• Convert PrefixUnaryExpression (Not, minus, etc.) #533
• Rename more members with case conflicts (e.g. interface members) #533
• String equality conversion now calls "Equals" to match the C# logic #533
• Deduplicate imports #533
• Converts "default" keyword to "Nothing" keyword #428

7.9.0 Avoid more VS crashes

Vsix

• Exclude project file from conversion result if it hasn't changed
• Further efforts to stop the roslyn library crashing Visual Studio
• Conversion tasks are now cancellable

VB -> C#

• More consistently add constructor for DesignerGenerated attribute

C# -> VB

• Avoid incorrectly renaming symbols
• Prevent "SyntaxTree is not part of the compilation" error #527
• Avoid incorrectly renaming symbols #524

Avoid VS crash

Vsix

• Stop Roslyn from silently crashing Visual Studio during conversion #521

VB -> C#

• Performance improvement on big solutions

C# -> VB

• Partial class/method improvements
• Avoid ambiguity in some generated method calls

Comment conversion

VB -> C#

• Cast foreach collection to IEnumerable if needed or unknown
• Fix ordering bug converting redim bounds without preserve for 2d arrays
• Exit Property should become return #497
• First effort converting some Xml Member Access
• Avoid adding new keyword when not allowed/required #504
• Avoid evaluating Select Case expression multiple times in some cases where it may be non-deterministic or have side effects #323
• Avoid repeated redundant break statement caused by explicit Exit Select #433
• Convert return expression to match return type #496
• Fix conversion for hex values ending in "C" #483
• Converted multi line if blocks now always contain braces #466
• Add conversions to allow arithmetic on enums
• Add omitted argument lists on conditional expressions
• Winforms initialization improvements
• Convert VbMyResourcesResXFileCodeGenerator resource generator type in project file
• Improved comment conversion #518

C# -> VB

• Rename local symbols differing only in case #80
• Remove erroneous event modifier from delegates
• Add Implements clause for event fields
• Add Overloads modifier where needed in VB
• Add ReadOnly/WriteOnly modifier for interface properties that need it
• Fix bug which led to nested modules
• Fix accessibility of converted public static classes
• Fix overqualifying with "Global" in some cases
• Fix parenthesized TryCast which caused compile error
• Fix erroneous rename of value argument in events' accessors and properties' setter
• Add call AscW method to convert Char to numeric types
• Remove erroneous backing fields' generation in root classes
• Add TryCast expression for convering to generic types
• Comments are now converted
• Some preprocessor directives are partially converted #517

VS Crash fix & better name resolution

• Improve ambiguous name resolution

Vsix

• Fix Visual Studio crash when converting some structures

VB -> C#

• Simplify compound assignment conversion
• Avoid some case conflicts

C# -> VB

• Remove extra parentheses around CType expression
• Convert var declaration patterns with binary operators in switch statements (part of #222)
• Keep empty argument lists

Api changes and bug fixes

• Several C# API tweaks wrapping conversion options into a type

Vsix

• Fixed error caused when converting with "Copy to clipboard" option enabled

VB -> C#

• Add modifier for nested types
• Remove body for converted extern methods
• Convert Call with missing argument list and semantic information

C# -> VB

• Convert "is" expression (#427)
• Convert "*=" operator

Bug fixes

• Fixes for nullrefs

Vsix

• Load extension only when menu item clicked (multi-project conversion menu not present until project loaded)

VB -> C#

• Convert implicit object->string cast correctly (#365)
• Convert trivia (e.g. comments) at start of file (#333)
• Improvements to redim conversion (#403, #393)
• Convert array of arrays initializer (#364)
• Improvements to implicit enum -> int conversion (#361)
• Convert expressions in constants (#329)
• Convert implicit ElementAtOrDefault (#362)
• Convert types in ternary expressions (#363)
• Support for converting dot net standard VB projects (#398)
• Avoid compilation error for duplicate cases (#374)
• Correctly handle type promoted module symbols (#375)
• Prefer renamed imports for name resolution (#401)
• Correctly convert ambiguous names (#332)
• Ensure correct visibility for constructors (#422)
• Ensure casing is correct for namespaces (#421)
• Convert CType from a non numeric type to an enum
• Convert Exit Function
• Convert object initializers requiring type casts
• Convert async keyword on lambdas
• Convert nullable if statement conditions

C# -> VB

• Convert property accessors with visiblity modifiers (#92)
• For loop with decrement (i--) results in missing 'Step -1' (#411)
• Improve escaping for variables of predefined types
• Add Implements keyword for explicitly implemented members
• Property/indexer conversion improvements
• Convert private default members
• Convert property accessors with visiblity modifiers (#92)
• For loop with decrement (i--) results in missing 'Step -1' (#411)
• Improve custom event conversion (#442)