Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...

Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, ...

NEW YORK — Nov. 12, 2014 — On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on ...

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.

After previously open sourcing components of its Porting Assistant for .NET, Amazon Web Services open sourced the tool's GUI. AWS last July announced the Porting Assistant for .NET to scan apps and ...

NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers or IoT devices from the comfort of Visual Studio. Microsoft today released a preview of a Visual Studio extension that adds remote ...

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rick Almeida, Sales Engineer at SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, is presenting, “Automated GUI Testing with ...

Microsoft has been described as the "bete noire" of open source software, but that's set to change under Satya Nadella as Redmond moves its MSBuild tool, part of Visual Studio, into the public domain.

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With licensing restrictions that favor individual users and open source developers, the free-to-use edition of Visual Studio offers non-Microsoft developers quite a lot, too With Visual Studio 2015 ...

The Eclipse consortium for open source tools on Tuesday is announcing its Visual Editor Project, to deliver a visual GUI construction and editor platform. With Eclipse’s Visual Editor reference ...