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 ...

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, ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, the free version of its toolkit for writing Windows 8 desktop apps, is available for download as of today, September 12. That's one of the ...

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 ...