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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2015, .NET 4.6

Paul Morris·July 20, 2015

After going through the process of fine tuning and improving thanks to twelve months of preview builds, Microsoft has officially launched the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) about a week before Windows 10 is released to public. After taking onboard comments from users over the last year, a time period that also included a release candidate, Microsoft feels it has sufficiently improved the Visual Studio IDE enough to release to the public alongside an update to its .NET framework.

Visual Studio 11 Beta And .NET 4.5 Beta Now Available On MSDN – Download It Now!

Paul Paliath·February 29, 2012

To pile on to today's barrage of news and beta software releases - in case you've been living under a rock, I'm referring to the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 beta - Microsoft has also released the Visual Studio 11 Beta with .NET 4.5 Beta for download.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Released

Taimur Asad·April 12, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Theme for Windows 7

Taimur Asad·April 11, 2010

Just found out this Visual Studio 2010 theme for Windows 7 and thought I should share it with you all. This theme includes 3 VS2010 wallpapers (wish they were widescreen), and has been put together by Rob Caron for all the .NET devs out there.

Windows Phone 7 Series Development Tools Announced

Taimur Asad·March 15, 2010

Microsoft today at the MIX10 conference has rolled out Release Candidate version of Silverlight 4, along with tons of other tools like Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 Series add-in to use with Visual Studio 2010 RC, XNA Game Studio 4.0, Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator for application testing, and Expression Blend for Windows Phone Community Technology Preview. It was announced by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform in his keynote today at MIX10, held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Facebook Meets Silverlight with Microsoft Facebook SDK 3.0

Ali·November 10, 2009

How to Open a Project in Expression Blend from Visual Studio

Anum Lodhi·August 9, 2009

When working with WPF/Silverlight in Blend, it is quite irritating having to actually switch between Visual Studio and Blend throughout the course of the project by opening the project from its folder location again and again. I bet you might have wondered atleast once whether there was a way to open your project in Blend directly through Visual Studio!

Create a Glossy-looking Glass button in WPF

Anum Lodhi·July 20, 2009

Tired of the usual look of your buttons in WPF? Do you want a glossy-looking button with glass shine and glow effect as soon as you move the mouse cursor over the button? Its just six easy steps away … Follow the tutorial below and give a fresh look to your apps.

Speech Recognition in a C# WPF Application

Anum Lodhi·July 15, 2009

Silverlight 3 Ships. Download Links and Instructions

Taimur Asad·July 11, 2009

Microsoft has finally rolled out the final bits Silverlight 3 along with full version of Expression Studio 3 for creating RIA (Rich Internet Applications). If you haven't already discovered the new features in Silverlight 3, here is a list of all the new controls, features and functionality that is added within the Silverlight 3.

XNA Game Studio 3.1 is here! Start developing games for Xbox, Zune and Windows

Taimur Asad·June 12, 2009

XNA Game Studio 3.1 is go! and it brings support for the new features in Xbox 360 NXE - Xbox LIVE Avatars, Xbox LIVE Party features, Video playback and more!

Microsoft Semblio brings content to life!

Taimur Asad·February 7, 2009

Find and Download all Microsoft SDKs from one place

Taimur Asad·January 24, 2009

Ever had a problem finding a SDK of a particular Microsoft product? Well now you don't need to look for it any further as Microsoft over at their MSDN portal has put together a page, which links to SDKs( Software Development Kits) with documentation and sample codes for all the products released from Microsoft.

Learning Pack for Visual Studio 2008

Taimur Asad·January 24, 2009

The Visual Studio Team over at Microsoft has introduced a very useful learning package to help learn about computer programming. Whether you are a teacher, a student of an Algorithms course or just a plain hobbyist; this package with its powerful feature-set could really get you started with some of the basic computer programming paradigms.

Windows Azure Tools updated to January 2009 CTP

Taimur Asad·January 15, 2009

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