The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup. Microsoft has added Visual Studio 2012 Express for ...

Microsoft backs down from its decision to pull desktop UI development from its Visual Studio Express suite, and will be releasing Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop this fall. Microsoft ...

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 ...

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

Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Although the company won't be releasing Visual Studio 2015 until some time this summer, officials are going public now with the planned pricing and SKU line-up for Visual Studio 2015. As of today, ...