.NET makes threading easy, especially compared to implementing threading in either VB6 or C++. But threading in .NET doesn't require that you use a structured implementation, which can lead to ...

Microsoft announced a "special invitation with a" "sweet offer" to developers attending the upcoming Visual Studio Live! developer conference in Las Vegas, headlined by the company's expert developers ...

A couple years after the debut of the original "AI pair programmer," GitHub Copilot, related extensions available for Visual Studio Code now number in the hundreds. Specifically, if you do a search ...

One of SharePoint Portal Server's selling points is that it provides broad customization at all levels, from a corporation's home page down to a single user's personal page. Without having to write ...

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask developers about their "pet peeves" with Visual Studio and got an earful in reply. The principal program manager on the Visual Studio team is ...

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

Microsoft finally shipped v1.0 of its Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK) after last year changing directions and using the Rust programming language for a re-write. It's been a long road, as the kit ...

Microsoft's' string of productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2022 over the past year have continued in v17.9 Preview 3, shipped last week. That preview enhances search functionality, specifically ...

The Microsoft executive who may know the developer community better than any other is set for a big promotion. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie has been tapped to replace Satya Nadella ...

The concept of "write once, run anywhere" has long been a dream of developers. Supporting an application across multiple platforms and devices, without having to rewrite and maintain it, is something ...

In a move that should cheer developers, Microsoft has named as its new CEO the former president of its Server and Tools division. Satya Nadella will be the third CEO in the company's history. Bill ...

It took a long time for Microsoft to replace former CEO Steve Ballmer. But his replacement is wasting no time in putting his own stamp on the company. Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella this week will ...