Microsoft is readying a beta of a new SKU of Visual Studio 2008, intended for those who want to embed it into their own tools. Microsoft is readying a beta of a new SKU of its next generation of ...

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When I wrote about free Ruby on Rails IDEs last Wednesday, I drew a comment from "teki321:" "I would never put 'Ruby in Steel' in the context of free. It's an extension for a commercial application, ...

Microsoft unveiled the offical name of the software formerly code-namded Orcas at TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Fla., where it also announced plans for Visual Studio Shell, the next iteration of its ...

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code ...

On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.

Learn how to use Microsoft’s programmers’ editor, Visual Studio Code, to get the most from the latest PowerShell releases. PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The ...

Microsoft is readying a beta of a new SKU of its next generation of Visual Studio, intended for those who want to embed it into their own tools. The company will offer what it calls Visual Studio ...