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 has decided that today is the day it will launch Visual Studio 2012. Although it has been available to MSDN subscribers for some weeks already, and although the Express editions for Web and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

With more than 600,000 downloads of Visual Studio 2012 in a less than 4 weeks, the new IDE has the fastest download rate in the product's history. SEATTLE -- The official launch of Visual Studio 2012 ...

Alongside the launch of Windows 8 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers today, Microsoft has also released Visual Studio 2012, the latest version of its popular software development tool, for subscribers ...