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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

So, Visual Studio 2012 is out. I've installed it, and like it overall. It hasn't broken anything in 2008 or 2010, and I'm running all three at once at the moment. The color scheme (which everybody ...

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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 ...