EF uses the standard Visual Studio Custom Tool mechanism and Single File Generator. This infrastructure allows a Custom Tool, generally a code generator, to be attached to any loaded file. If you open ...

Right now, in Visual Studio, you can create a solution that takes a single UI with its code and shares it across Windows, Android, macOS, iOS and web browsers. It's not a perfect cross-platform ...

Editor's note: I am pleased to bring you a new young blogger on Planet Analog, Tyler Deuty. He will be occasionally blogging and bringing us a really good perspective ...

If your company develops desktop applications for Windows, you're probably using Visual C++. This version of C++ contains special functions and objects to handle the Windows environment. These files, ...

NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers or IoT devices from the comfort of Visual Studio. Microsoft today released a preview of a Visual Studio extension that adds remote ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earlier this year, foreshadowing today’s announcements. (Microsoft photo) In a major strategy change designed to expand its horizons in the cloud, Microsoft will take its ...

It won't get the headlines that Microsoft bringing SQL Server to Linux did, but Microsoft joining the Eclipse Foundation and integrating Visual Studio with Eclipse is just as big a deal for developers ...