Today's users are more demanding—they expect to find Microsoft Office application features, such as popup-style windows, irregularly shaped forms, and collapsible and dockable controls, in a robust ...

We've seen the functionality before -- first in Microsoft Office, and then refined in Visual Studio 2005 -- of docking and floating toolbars in an application. So-called tear-off toolbars allow the ...

I'm a semi-experienced C++ programmer trying to pick up C# and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to find the C# equivalent of a 'cout'. <BR><BR>I'm trying to develop a Windows Forms application which ...

Microsoft is making three of its most popular Windows frameworks -- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms and the Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) available under open source licenses.

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to ...