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, ...

Simultaneous with next Wednesday's launch of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft will release the beta version of Visual Studio 11, the next iteration of the company's hefty development ...

"It's a complete new interface that you're getting," said Cleeren, a beta user of Visual Studio 2010 and a leader of the Belgian Visual Studio User Group. He added the performance issues that had ...

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 ...