Color is back. Back, that is, in Visual Studio 11. Microsoft has heard the outcry of its developer community on the monochromatic look of the beta version of Visual Studio 11, released last February, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's open source development tool starts as an editor, but can become any kind of IDE—and be extended for most any language—on Mac, Linux, or Windows. If there’s any one tool a software ...

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, ...