Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.5 Release Candidates are now available for download for those with a "Go Live" license. The Release Candidates of Visual Studio 11, now officially named Visual Studio 2012 ...

Microsoft is making the Visual Studio 2012 tooling available to all developers on August 15. MSDN subscribers can also access Windows 8 for testing purposes, starting today. Microsoft released Visual ...

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Microsoft has decided that today is the day it will launch Visual Studio 2012. Although it has been available to MSDN subscribers for some weeks already, and although the Express editions for Web and ...

Microsoft has pulled back the covers on Visual Studio 2012 and is announcing a few new features today at their launch event. You can see the full list below and know that the updates for all of the ...

Previously, these packages were limited to Metro, Azure, Windows Phone, and the Web, but developer pressure has led to Microsoft offering a desktop version After hearing objections from developers, ...

A quick note on two Microsoft updates: One on its way out and the other, on its way in. As I blogged a couple months back, the RTM (release to manufacturing) version of Windows 7, with no service pack ...