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 ...

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 ...

One of the smaller -- but still significant -- announcements made at the Microsoft Build conference today was the news that the third update to Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 has ...

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 ...

Just like clockwork, the Visual Studio team is continuing to push ahead with what look to be quarterly updates to Visual Studio 2012. On April 15, the team made available for download the first ...

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 has launched a release candidate version for the fourth major patch for Visual Studio 2012, which should be the final major update before the launch of Visual Studio 2013. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft plans to hold the line with pricing for the latest version of Visual Studio, officials disclosed this week. Visual Studio 2013 prices are unchanged from the corresponding Visual Studio 2012 ...

At its Build developers conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of the first release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. While this may sound like a minor update, it’s actually a big ...

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I gotta say that while the new color scheme took a bit to get used to, but now looking at VS 2010 is almost literally painful. I thought the lack of color would bother me, but it doesn't at all. I'm ...

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