The text editor is the most critical tool in a programmer's arsenal, acting as the daily workbench, primary interface, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have adopted Atom as my de facto text editor, though I still spend a lot of time in Visual Studio. Like all great IDEs, Visual Studio is easy to extend with the available tools and add-ons. Tools ...

Extension methods provide a great way for extending a class functionality -- but it's interfaces that let you use those methods anywhere you want. Extension methods let you add functionality to an ...

In “Designing visual user interfaces for mobile applications,” Luca Chittaro of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Udine, describes a project in which participants are introduced to the ...

When attempting to launch an industry-wide infrastructure overhaul, “If you build it, they will come” is probably not a good motto. Accordingly, Microsoft Corp. announced a series of partners ...