Microsoft .NET lets you build complex applications quickly and easily, but its selection of controls does have notable gaps. Fortunately, you can address part of this deficiency yourself by building ...

You can use the power of GDI+ in Windows Forms to create owner-drawn controls with rounded corners and custom gradients (see my Desktop Developer column in last month's issue). That's exciting, but it ...

Since 2009, it's been possible to develop iOS applications using C# and .NET, courtesy of MonoTouch. But one important detail has always been missing. If you wanted to use Visual Studio—the premier C# ...

Microsoft Corp.’s forthcoming SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 products will include functionality allowing developers to add business intelligence features to their applications, a Microsoft ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...