Microsoft developers keep plugging away at the "huge technical challenge" of duplicating the Windows Forms designer found in the aging, Windows-only .NET Framework in .NET Core, the new open-source, ...

Microsoft provided an update on its years-long effort to bring the new Windows Forms designer up to speed with the old .NET Framework version. Duplicating the .NET Framework WinForms designer on .NET ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio is more than just an IDE. It’s the official developer tool for Microsoft’s platform, and new releases tie in with major changes in Windows. Visual Studio 11, now in beta, ...

Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since 2021, promising deeper AI integration and a new look and feel.… Visual Studio is the second most popular ...