Developers can now download the Visual Studio 2012 software development platform and accompanying .Net Framework 4.5, a Microsoft official revealed on Wednesday. Available to MSDN subscribers, Visual ...

Microsoft is making the Visual Studio 2012 tooling available to all developers on August 15. MSDN subscribers can also access Windows 8 for testing purposes, starting today. Microsoft released Visual ...

Previously, these packages were limited to Metro, Azure, Windows Phone, and the Web, but developer pressure has led to Microsoft offering a desktop version After hearing objections from developers, ...

The company plans to reset its tools to work with new products expected to ship in the coming months, including Windows.Net Server and an update to the SQL Server database. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET ...

Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse Friday of future versions of the company’s Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates will ...

Microsoft has gone back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes. Microsoft has been developing a new version of ...