After publishing your first Windows Phone application to the Store, you'll probably wonder how that app's being used. Unfortunately, the Store itself only provides minimal information, such as the ...

Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to ...

A new feature of Windows Store apps, utilizing background tasks will not only help circumvent some challenges from the Windows Store app lifecycle, but they can keep your app responsive to what's ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft today is making available the release candidate for the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 software for building apps, five months after issuing a preview. Also today, the tech ...

Developers can now rebuild their UWP and Win32 apps to run as native ARM64 apps. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. During its Build ...

Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual ...

The team building the next release of Visual Studio has responded to developer criticism and is adding support for building Windows 8 Desktop apps to VS 2012 Express. Last month, there was quite a bit ...

Not too surprisingly, documents leaked earlier this week were correct and Microsoft is making available to developers for testing two new test versions of Visual Studio: Visual Studio for Mac and ...