The latest offering of Visual Studio contains many features. It has come a long way since it was released. Well, let’s just quickly dive in on how a beginner can get started with VS. So, first of all, ...

Microsoft today announced a free editor for developers called Visual Studio Code, which is now available for download. Visual Studio Code is a code optimized editor for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with ...

Visual Studio 2015 offers productivity gains and cross-platform development Your email has been sent After looking at the preview of Visual Studio 2015, Tony Patton says his overall first impressions ...

After a year of previews and one release candidate, Microsoft today officially launched the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) together with an update to its ...

Visual Studio has always been a big product with a raft of features that grew with each release. Visual Studio 2015 extends that trend in ways I never expected to see from Microsoft. Cross-platform ...

In a dramatic shift, Microsoft takes a big step into open source, with the aim of spreading Microsoft development across iOS, Android, OS X, and Linux Microsoft’s long and contentious relationship ...

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 ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Nick Randolph dissects a Windows Phone 8.1 application package in order to inject analytics tracking code into a pre-build application. Adding analytics code is a necessary part of all good ...

A peek at a diagnostics tool that gives developers some insight into networking issues that might be mucking up how apps interact among the Windows device spectrum. The Visual Studio team blogged ...