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Microsoft is reportedly preparing to remove the compiler toolchain from its Windows SDK for Windows 8, in what appears to be an attempt to force developers into building Metro style apps. Microsoft is ...

There's something in the air, and this time, it's not from Apple. Adobe announced today the official 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, its technology for merging web and desktop application development, along ...

AJAX is the web development buzzword du mois. AJAX programming isn't really anything revolutionary. It is simply a means of combining a bunch of web-oriented technologies in a way that enables ...

Visual Studio App Center, a mobile-centric resource for building, testing, releasing and monitoring apps, now supports desktop development. Microsoft this week announced a preview release of the App ...

Microsoft released on October 8 an updated version of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) that includes support for Desktop applications running on Windows 8. Company officials said ...

That automation delivers a number of benefits, including expediting application development to improving the agility of change management. That agility will prove to be important for those developers ...

We are looking for experienced C++ developers who will be responsible for building and maintaining a complex desktop application with interfaces with our client’s other hardware and software.

Microsoft’s newly released Windows 10 offers developers what at first blush appears to be a can’t-miss pitch: Write your app once and run it anywhere Windows exists. With Microsoft’s push toward “one ...