Microsoft has already ruffled more than a few feathers with the exclusionary potential of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, and this past week the open source community has been up in arms ...

The release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 11 is right around the corner, and as the beta has been available for a while, we couldn’t avoid giving it a go. This is the de facto development tool for the ...

Microsoft has disclosed the final product lineup and specifications for the next release of Visual Studio, which will be used for developing apps for everything from Windows 8 to Windows Phone and ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

Sensing the growing interest in DevOps, Microsoft will incorporate a number of new tools in its next edition of Visual Studio that will allow developers to work more closely with operations personnel.

In announcing Windows 11, Microsoft said a more open Microsoft Store ecosystem will provide more opportunities for developers. "We're enabling developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to ...

We are at the end of yet another week as time keeps on flying by, racing towards the end of the calendar year. As we do each week, it is time to recap everything important that happened in the ...

Sayonara Microsoft is adding Visual Studio to its graveyard, but only on the Mac, as it shifts resources to VS Code. Coding Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web ...

The team building the next release of Visual Studio has responded to developer criticism and is adding support for building Windows 8 Desktop apps to VS 2012 Express. Last month, there was quite a bit ...