Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore’s computers. Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# using Avalonia. This is a fun, toy project with no commercial intent. All rights to the Visual Basic name, icons, and graphics belong ...

.NET Aspire is an interesting piece of the .NET ecosystem, providing a framework for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications. Still relatively new, Aspire takes an opinionated ...

Uno Platform today announced its new Uno Platform Studio with Hot Design, a visual designer for cross-platform .NET apps that offers a modern take on popular WYSIWYG designers of the past, like Visual ...

Microsoft has just released the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, which supports .NET 9, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s open-source development platform. This is big news for those who ...

In this year's big Stack Overflow developer survey things are much the same for Microsoft-centric data points: VS Code and Visual Studio still rule the IDE roost, while .NET maintains its No. 1 ...

Bottom line: Recent advancements in AI systems have significantly improved their ability to recognize and analyze complex images. However, a new paper reveals that many state-of-the-art visual ...

Visual Studio Code's .NET MAUI workload, which evolves the former Xamarin.Forms mobile-centric framework by adding support for creating desktop applications, has reached general availability. Finally ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...