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With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

Windows Forms would like you to know that the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. How exaggerated? Claims of its death go back at least to 2014, when a post started off with "Everyone knows ...

Recently some folks had posted questions about Visual Studio 2005 in the comments section. Many people were asking why they should upgrade. To me there are several reasons, as long as you can ...

As promised, Microsoft today launched Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6. These new versions are aimed at developers targeting new platforms, including cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft today is making available the release candidate for the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 software for building apps, five months after issuing a preview. Also today, the tech ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...