The text editor is the most critical tool in a programmer's arsenal, acting as the daily workbench, primary interface, and ...

Simultaneous with next Wednesday's launch of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft will release the beta version of Visual Studio 11, the next iteration of the company's hefty development ...

User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

I have adopted Atom as my de facto text editor, though I still spend a lot of time in Visual Studio. Like all great IDEs, Visual Studio is easy to extend with the available tools and add-ons. Tools ...

Xamarin, the mobile application development startup Microsoft was eyeing as an acquisition target a few months ago, is continuing to become more strategically important to Microsoft developers by ...

In “Designing visual user interfaces for mobile applications,” Luca Chittaro of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Udine, describes a project in which participants are introduced to the ...

Visual Studio 11 will be released in beta next week, to coincide with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It'll include new features to enhance relationships between developers and operations managers, ...