Every time Microsoft makes a major UI change to one of its products, users complain. When Office 2007 introduced the ribbon UI, they complained. When the ribbon started worming its way into Windows, ...

Hello Ars,<BR><BR>Visual Studio makes it incredibly easy for me to make GUI programs in Visual Basic and Visual C#. I've always wondered, is using Visual Basic/C#, dropping controls onto a form and ...

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The last five years have seen a significant increase in the use of unit tests by developers as a key way to improve software quality, thereby reducing the overall cost of software development over ...

Microsoft unveils Visual Studio 2026 with deeper AI integration, faster performance, and a refreshed design in its first ...

New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework Microsoft has released a preview of Visual ...

There’s long been a tension between designers and developers, with code and user interface often seen as being in conflict. That really shouldn’t be the case: A well-designed UI can help define the ...

Microsoft will show on Tuesday the “modernized” look and feel for the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment. The company will detail the UI effort at the VSLive conference in San ...