Hello Ars,<BR><BR>Visual Studio makes it incredibly easy for me to make GUI programs in Visual Basic and Visual C#. I've always wondered, is using Visual Basic/C#, dropping controls onto a form and ...

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UI component vendor Infragistics last month released an updated version of its TestAdvantage functional testing product built upon Hewlett-Packard Development Co.'s test platform, and says it expects ...

Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2015 (VS 2015), the latest version of the company’s integrated development environment, will launch on July 20. Microsoft has also partnered with the likes ...

Color is back. Back, that is, in Visual Studio 11. Microsoft has heard the outcry of its developer community on the monochromatic look of the beta version of Visual Studio 11, released last February, ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on ...

I've been doing a lot of thinking about and working with interfaces lately. There's a massive pitfall to the "do what Windows does" tenet that I've not thought of a way of overcoming. The pitfall is ...

There isn't a whole lot of Windows-focused development news at Build this week, but that may be by design. Microsoft is rumored to be planning a dedicated Windows event later this summer (and possibly ...