Microsoft has given developers a look at its programming tools for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS. Here are our first impressions.

Prior versions (before V10) focused on creating desktop applications for Microsoft Windows environments. Alpha Five V9 started to change the development paradigm by including some web application ...

News. MIX10: Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Free, Silverlight 4 RC. By Kathleen Richards; 03/15/2010; The opening keynote of Microsoft's 5th annual MIX10 conference for Web developers and designers ...

It’s certainly possible. And yet, the slowing of Windows 8 development reversed course right around the time when Microsoft needed it most—when the Win 8.1 build was released.

In Redmond's words "Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 provides tools for Metro style app development. To create desktop applications, developers need to use Visual Studio 11 Professional, or ...

Introducing Windows Template Studio. One option is to use an application builder to simplify that first build; using a tool to generate at the very least a scaffold that can support your application.

Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system is filled with a rich selection of programs and applications. Many better-known Windows programs come with antiquated interfaces and old-fashioned ...

The Windows 10 clock is ticking: ... Sybase enhances mobile-app development tool PocketBuilder 2.0 adds native support for GPS systems, barcode scanners, SMS, smartphone platforms, more.

Strong development tools, especially IDEs, will greatly help J2ME’s adoption among wireless application developers. In this article, I review four J2ME IDE products: Borland JBuilder 7 ...

Windows AI Studio is yet another attempt from Microsoft to encourage native Windows app development. The AI Studio gives developers a set of tools to integrate generative AI into their apps.