We've seen the functionality before -- first in Microsoft Office, and then refined in Visual Studio 2005 -- of docking and floating toolbars in an application. So-called tear-off toolbars allow the ...

Today's users are more demanding—they expect to find Microsoft Office application features, such as popup-style windows, irregularly shaped forms, and collapsible and dockable controls, in a robust ...

Microsoft is making three of its most popular Windows frameworks -- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms and the Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) available under open source licenses.

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

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Anyone know how I can use Microsoft Forms 2.0 controls in a visual c++ app? Basically, I just want to be able to use a label as it's going to be a pain to try and change the appearance of a static ...

At its Build 2022 conference just a few weeks ago, Microsoft announced Project Volterra, an ARM64 device built on the Snapdragon compute platform that would make it easier for developers to build and ...

Microsoft has announced Visual Studio 2022 17.4 GA fully supports Arm64. Announced at Build 2022 along with Project Volterra, the latest version of Visual Studio 2022 completes the Windows on ARM ...