We've seen the functionality before -- first in Microsoft Office, and then refined in Visual Studio 2005 -- of docking and floating toolbars in an application. So-called tear-off toolbars allow the ...

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.

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on ...

Microsoft has published today two out-of-band security updates to address security issues in the Windows Codecs library and the Visual Studio Code application. Systems running the Windows 10 ...

Starting with Microsoft Office, users have been able to double-click or drag a toolbar and have it become a floating window that can be moved or docked to the side of the application window. Here's ...