Microsoft has decided that today is the day it will launch Visual Studio 2012. Although it has been available to MSDN subscribers for some weeks already, and although the Express editions for Web and ...

Microsoft has added Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop to its lineup of free, lightweight development tools in response to developer feedback. S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president ...

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s free upcoming Visual Studio 11 Express environment will only let developers create Metro style applications and nothing desktop-related.

The team building the next release of Visual Studio has responded to developer criticism and is adding support for building Windows 8 Desktop apps to VS 2012 Express. Last month, there was quite a bit ...

Arm64 support was previewed in June with Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2, at the time supporting only these workloads: Desktop development with C++ (for MSBuild-based projects) .NET desktop ...

Microsoft backs down from its decision to pull desktop UI development from its Visual Studio Express suite, and will be releasing Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop this fall.

After hearing objections from developers, Microsoft will offer a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 package for desktop application development after all.

Make your development workflow a lot easier. Right now, you can get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows for just $39.97 (reg. $499).

Microsoft has instituted a big change with its free Visual Studio 11 Express suite that's leaving some current- and soon-to-be Windows 8 developers up in arms: it's pulling support for creating ...

Facebook says it is making Microsoft's popular coding environment, Visual Studio Code, its default development platform. Microsoft's open-source integrated development environment (IDE), VS Code or ...

In short, Visual Studio 2013 brings not only a number of big improvements tailored to development teams, but also many smaller ones that will actually matter to working developers.

No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps.