User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

Color is back. Back, that is, in Visual Studio 11. Microsoft has heard the outcry of its developer community on the monochromatic look of the beta version of Visual Studio 11, released last February, ...

The big debate in Windows development has always been how to build your application’s user interface. We’ve been spoiled for choice, and every time Microsoft unveils a new front-end framework we’re ...

Xamarin, the mobile application development startup Microsoft was eyeing as an acquisition target a few months ago, is continuing to become more strategically important to Microsoft developers by ...

We're moving to Visual Studio 2010 at my company, as we're a .NET shop, and Visual Studio generally makes big improvements with each new version. Visual Studio 2010 is particularly pleasing, with a ...