Linux vendor Novell is offering a new commercial add-in for Visual Studio that will allow software developers to test and package .NET applications for Linux without having to leave their Windows ...

One of our lead developers recently shared a list of some of the most helpful, free Visual Studio add-ins, and we thought you might find it useful. They are as follows (in no particular order) : This ...

Programmers spend a lot of time doing the same things over and over again. No amount of IntelliSense can overcome the number of for loops I need to write each year. But, sometimes, it's best to bundle ...

Microsoft also announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for ...

Started this new job about 6 months ago, and one thing I haven't figured out is, why they don't keep Visual Studio solution files under source control. Instead, each developer keeps an offline copy of ...

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