Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

Previously, these packages were limited to Metro, Azure, Windows Phone, and the Web, but developer pressure has led to Microsoft offering a desktop version After hearing objections from developers, ...

Each edition of Visual Studio comes with hidden preview features that can be unlocked to try out brand-new functionality that hasn't yet been baked into the IDE, with the purpose being the collection ...