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 ...

The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup. Microsoft has added Visual Studio 2012 Express for ...

Developers can now download the Visual Studio 2012 software development platform and accompanying .Net Framework 4.5, a Microsoft official revealed on Wednesday. Available to MSDN subscribers, Visual ...

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Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 2012, the latest iteration of its Visual Studio developer tool suite. The IT giant says new features of the latest edition are designed to help developers “turn ...

Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.5 Release Candidates are now available for download for those with a "Go Live" license. The Release Candidates of Visual Studio 11, now officially named Visual Studio 2012 ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The ...

A certain product debut in California is getting lots of attention this morning, but Microsoft is making a push of its own for the attention of software developers — hoping to encourage a critical ...

Microsoft wants Visual Studio 2012 to help software developers to become the new "rock stars" of the world, according to Microsoft technical evangelist Rocky Heckman. He was speaking at the Australian ...

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, ...

A month ago, it looked like Microsoft's Visual Studio team had decided that the third update to Visual Studio 2012 would be the last before the company moved on to the next version of the suite, known ...