As promised, Microsoft today launched Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6. These new versions are aimed at developers targeting new platforms, including cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, ...

In an announcement today, Microsoft’s Phone Developer Blog has mentioned that developers are now able to use Visual Basic to write apps for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone developers will be able to ...

Data visualization has been done — there are publicly traded, interactive, real-time and, heck, even artificially intelligent companies promising data visualization. But despite all the noise, ...

More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

OEMs and developers can build on the powerful QIX in-memory Associative Indexing Engine, with full capabilities of mashup and extension APIs. With this platform they are not confined to the specific ...

Microsoft today launched a new plugin for Visual Studio called Bing Developer Assistant. The tool, which is available for both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013, helps developers find code ...

Last October the Visual Studio Engineering Team announced it was moving off the UserVoice site previously used to collect developer feedback about the IDE in favor of a new "Suggest a Feature" ...

Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela speaks at Microsoft Envision. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) There’s little debate that Microsoft has become a company willing to work across ...

Microsoft's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic. More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have ...