Web development is easier when you've got the right tools at hand. Here are 14 tools and extensions for building Web apps. Building Web apps seems like it ought to be easy enough. A little HTML, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2002 — In the most significant product launch of the new Microsoft® .NET era, Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today launched Visual Studio® .NET and the ...

Expert Web developer Chris Klug helps makes sense of today's complicated Web dev ecosystem and the tools and technologies that are emerging at a dizzying pace. Being a Web developer is challenging.

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new "AI-native" Visual Studio 2026 ...

This review got its start in my ToolTracker blog, where I asked if it made sense for VSM to review Amethyst, a Flash (Adobe AIR/Flex) development tool that integrates with Visual Studio. No other blog ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements. Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 17.6 IDE is now ...

Visual Studio has always been a big product with a raft of features that grew with each release. Visual Studio 2015 extends that trend in ways I never expected to see from Microsoft. Cross-platform ...

Microsoft began shipping its long-awaited Visual Studio 2010 development toolset Monday, offering support for Windows 7, Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, and the latest releases of ...