Microsoft finally unveiled the Windows Universal Application Platform at Build in San Francisco. Nick Randolph takes the new controls -- and other changes that assist developers building adaptive ...

After publishing your first Windows Phone application to the Store, you'll probably wonder how that app's being used. Unfortunately, the Store itself only provides minimal information, such as the ...

Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s latest releases are Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015 (Fig. 1). Together they are a great combination. Windows 10 targets a range of platforms from smartphones to workstations, as well as ...

Microsoft's everything-and-the-kitchen-sink IDE fuels Windows 8 and Windows RT development with smoothly integrated tools and an abundance of resources Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no ...

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 ...

Visual Studio is crashing when docking or dragging windows around after installing recently released .NET Framework cumulative update previews for Windows 10 and Windows Server. The problematic ...

Microsoft is working on a new update mechanism for its flagship integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio. The company wants to start updating it via Windows Update. Did you know that ...