Visual Studio 2026 is a fully 64-bit IDE built to handle large, complex solutions without choking on performance. Whether you ...

Nick looks at the preview release of Blend for Visual Studio 2015 and demonstrates some tips and tricks that will save you time and help you build better looking Windows Phone applications. Microsoft ...

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Application security is always an important topic in day-to-day development, but it doesn't always get the attention it deserves. There are many reasons you should be concerned with security. Over the ...

Beta 1 of Microsoft's LightSwitch shows promise as an easy-to-use development tool, but it doesn't seem to know its audience One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...