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XAML developers have enjoyed the reusable encapsulation and design-time experience of Behaviors since Windows Presentation Foundation. Just...

Lots of great stuff has been happening recently with Visual Studio. While I've quickly recapped all the goodness for you in an earlier ...

They dunked Visual Studio 2015 in a bucket of awesome-sauce and pulled out Update 1! This article will help step you through the update a...

And then there were three. The Visual Studio team has announced the convergence of their Premium and Ultimate editions into a single Visual ...

These are becoming the golden years. Microsoft has accomplished several amazing things at one time. First, Windows Core allows a driver test...

Microsoft had a series of major announcements on January 21. Most of them around Windows 10. Did you miss it? Let me summarize for you.

My daughters are getting into typing their homework, so I am making sure they understand OneDrive, OneNote, and Word. These are like Visual ...

How about a quick chat with the Windows Presentation Foundation team? Not sure what that road map article really meant. We’ll get to the bot...

The Bing Image Widget enhances your web site with the power of Bing Image Search and provides your users with beautiful, configurable image...

The way Microsoft acquires companies to solve niche problems is very interesting to me. It’s equally interesting to me how Microsoft determ...

You might think you need x-code to write an iOS app. You might think you need eclipse to write an Andriod app. Visual Studio, is it just for...

Visual Studio (and many other Microsoft Products) uses http://UserVoice.com as a feedback mechanism for users to suggest and vote on produc...

On Tuesday February 11th, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change , a contest from Microsoft YouthSpark ...

Are you a student? Are you building a Windows 8 app? Any student-written Windows 8 app published before 4/14/2014 qualifies to win a $50 Ama...

Last year, I sat down with my colleague and friend Daren May for to create a Microsoft Virtual Academy training series that beginner develop...

Here’s an awesome question I was recently asked: So far, our line-of-business apps are in Visual Basic. We are moving to Visual Studio 201...

Outlook.com is awesome. It is super-fast with hyper-advanced features that sort of make Yahoo!, Gmail, and AOL a great fit for your grandpar...

In our industry, the future is uncertain. As technology gets more complex, employment seems assured. But as technology gets more complex, pe...

Now, this is just for fun. Over the years, Microsoft has commissioned hundreds of logos to brand their products and properties. Sometimes th...

About 80 years ago (more like 10) Microsoft released the Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 . The keyboard, mouse combo was unparalleled in ergo...