To succeed in tough times, you need the best tools. The Visual Studio Magazine 2009 Readers Choice Awards honor the very best third-party tools, components and frameworks, as selected by one of the ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. At least, that's the hope of most conference organizers in the software development sector. With IT and dev budgets slashed and most organizations ...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1, which Microsoft released to manufacturing on August 11, isn't just a bunch of fixes and patches. Why not just call SP1 a new release, say Visual Studio 2009, I ...

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Earlier this week, Microsoft gave MSDN subscribers Beta 1 downloads of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. As promised, the releases are now available to the general public via the Microsoft ...

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 has delayed Visual Studio 2010 due to “feedback that the performance and virtual memory usage of VS 2010 Beta 2 is not where people need it to be before we ship” and has thus decided to ...