All developers want to automate menial, repetitive tasks. When you can automate tasks, it boosts productivity and cuts down on potential problems that might occur when performing tasks manually. One ...

In this space, I typically write about tools that help you build, manage, test or deploy software development projects. The one part of the project I've mostly ignored thus far is perhaps the most ...

Peter shows how a Visual Studio database project can make you more productive when making changes to your database. But a database project also gives you a variety of tools to let you keep track of ...

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Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps. Visual Basic is part of Microsoft's development software, Visual ...

Microsoft today announced an update to Windows Phone App Studio, a free Web-based tool that the company claims is designed to help anyone create an app without coding. This release, which is still in ...

Microsoft's Windows Template Studio is a tool meant to simplify development of apps built on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which it launched over a year ago. The company has been working ...