Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

Previously, these packages were limited to Metro, Azure, Windows Phone, and the Web, but developer pressure has led to Microsoft offering a desktop version After hearing objections from developers, ...

Microsoft is making the Visual Studio 2012 tooling available to all developers on August 15. MSDN subscribers can also access Windows 8 for testing purposes, starting today. Microsoft released Visual ...

There appears to be confusion among some developers around extensions in Visual Studio Express, Microsoft's free version of its flagship development tool. The question was posed this way by a ...

Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5, what it calls, its integrated development solution for building and managing applications. According to the company, Visual Studio ...

Back in June, a blogger by the name of Jeroen van den Bos posted an article on his blog where he argued that Windows Vista should ship with one of the Visual Studio Express editions installed. van den ...

Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has been offering for a few years now. There ...

Those who develop on Windows will be familiar with Microsoft Visual Studio Express edition products. For the rest, the Express editions are free versions of Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio ...