Microsoft said Wednesday it had decided to extend the free availability of Visual Studio Express Edition indefinitely, citing the immense response from customers that amounted in the tool being ...

Back in June, a blogger by the name of Jeroen van den Bos posted an article on his blog where he argued that Windows Vista should ship with one of the Visual Studio Express editions installed. van den ...

Microsoft has up the first three of sixteen video tutorials designed to teach novices the basics of application development with the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions. Lesson 1: Getting Started with ...

Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has been offering for a few years now. There ...

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, ...

GOLD COAST, Australia - Aug. 31, 2005 - Today at Microsoft ® TechEd Australia, Microsoft Corp. announced that Valve Corp. ®, creator of award-winning game franchises "Half-Life ®" and "Counter-Strike ...

Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down “Express” editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages.

One of my criticisms of Windows Mobile and the upcoming Windows Phone 7 was that the tool barrier of entry was too high. Developers needed a full relatively expensive copy of Microsoft Visual Studio ...