What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...

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Microsoft is making three of its most popular Windows frameworks -- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms and the Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) available under open source licenses.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has become one of the most popular development tools out there. Mixing proprietary Microsoft features with an extensible open source core, it’s a quick install that can ...

The developer-focused Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5 were released for download earlier today, along with VS 11 Team Foundation Server. They were released with a Go Live license, meaning ...

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 ...

The look and feel for Visual Studio 2010 will be based on Windows Presentation Foundation and .Net Framework 4.0 Microsoft showed on Tuesday morning the “modernized” look and feel for the planned ...