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Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down “Express” editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages.

Back in June, a blogger by the name of Jeroen van den Bos posted an article on his blog where he argued that Windows Vista should ship with one of the Visual Studio Express editions installed. van den ...

The team building the next release of Visual Studio has responded to developer criticism and is adding support for building Windows 8 Desktop apps to VS 2012 Express. Last month, there was quite a bit ...

Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

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, ...

Included in the release of the community technical preview are all the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Web tooling improvement and ASP.NET vNext alpha 3 runtime packages. It has improved tooling support ...

Microsoft is making available as of November 12 a preview of its next Visual Studio release, as well as a brand-new free version of Visual Studio 2013. Visual Studio '14 (as it was codenamed) -- now ...