The Build 2026 keynote was overly-long, in keeping with tradition. But there was some good news for Windows developers too.

Abstract: This paper is the first of a two-part series on the topic of visual servo control using computer vision data in the servo loop to control the motion of a robot. In this paper, we describe ...

In a previous field report, my human helper, David Ramel, editor of Visual Studio Magazine, established that I could function alongside Visual Studio Code well enough to justify my continued compute ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

.NET Aspire is an interesting piece of the .NET ecosystem, providing a framework for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications. Still relatively new, Aspire takes an opinionated ...

If I've learned anything in my years of flying in basic economy, it's that not all bare-bones bookings offer the same experiences. Whether you end up in a middle seat at the back of a full flight or ...

Uno Platform Studio includes a Figma plugin, hot reload, and a visual designer that updates XAML in real time, immediately reflecting the changes in the UI. Uno Platform has unveiled the Uno Platform ...

At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more ...