It's been too long since I've done a general-purpose round-up of new Visual Studio extensions -- almost eight months since Rounding Up the Newest Extensions for Visual Studio 2017. As always happens ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

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 ...

What is the difference between static code analysis and dynamic code analysis? Is one method preferred over another in terms of security? Static and dynamic code analyses are performed during source ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 of the integrated development environment (IDE) with a new IntelliSense linter to help C++ developers efficiently clean up code.

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.

It's no surprise that Microsoft has typically used its annual Ignite conference to announce the release of new product versions in varying forms, and the Visual Studio suite is no exception to that ...

It's always a good idea to employ a few static code analysis tools as part of your software development routine. There are a number of great tools that perform static analysis of Java code, such as ...

Alongside the first preview of .NET Core 3.0, Microsoft is also releasing Visual Studio 2019 in preview form, bringing an improved UI and a bunch of other changes to the coding experience.

When developing applications in .NET Core, you might often need a single, shared instance of a class. Typical use cases would be an instance of LogManager, StateManager, etc. You can either use a ...