Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in ...

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its flagship integrated development environment platform with new capabilities for building ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017 development environment continues the company’s new tradition, under CEO Satya Nadella, of working with open-source technologies and competing platforms. (File Photo) ...

Just over 20 years have passed since Microsoft first shipped Visual Studio, which bundled development environments for C++, Visual Basic, and its Java dialect J++. Since then, the languages have ...

Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.9, with improvements for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development and C++ debugging. For UWP, the Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK now is ...

With the long-awaited Visual Studio 2017 finally rolling out this week, here's a look at some user-requested features that didn't make into Microsoft's flagship IDE, and some that are on track for ...

Two years ago, when I reviewed Visual Studio 2015, I came away thinking that Microsoft’s IDE had become the most complicated product ever, and Microsoft would have to simplify it in the future. I was ...

It is now a full 20-years since Microsoft first offered its Visual Studio software development product to the market. Still then, with a new release in 2017, the focus is very much on how the firm can ...

At Microsoft’s Build 2017 developer conference, the biggest Visual Studio news wasn’t even for its own platform: Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has hit general availability (download here, requires OS X ...

Microsoft today announced plans to launch Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, 2017. Visual Studio 2017 went into public preview in March 2016 and hit Release Candidate status in November 2016. Formerly ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...