User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

Color is back. Back, that is, in Visual Studio 11. Microsoft has heard the outcry of its developer community on the monochromatic look of the beta version of Visual Studio 11, released last February, ...

Xamarin, the mobile application development startup Microsoft was eyeing as an acquisition target a few months ago, is continuing to become more strategically important to Microsoft developers by ...

We're moving to Visual Studio 2010 at my company, as we're a .NET shop, and Visual Studio generally makes big improvements with each new version. Visual Studio 2010 is particularly pleasing, with a ...

The Microsoft Connect(); conference in New York kicked off today, revealing significant tooling improvements impacting mobile app development, containerized app dev, cross-platform mobile DevOps and ...

Without further adieu, Microsoft will release on Monday its Visual Studio 2010 software development system and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 platform, followed later in the week by the release of ...

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That flat design is absolutely awful in Visual Studio 2012. Considering that Office applications are quite complex too, it's probably going to be just as bad... The complete lack of contrast makes it ...