Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Abstract: With Microsoftpsilas extended support for Visual Basic (VB) 6.0 ending this year, many application developers are looking for guidance on whether to upgrade, reuse, rewrite, or replace their ...

More small business owners than you might think are creating and writing their own software programs, and many times their first programming baby steps involve the use of Visual Basic for Applications ...

Microsoft has just released the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, which supports .NET 9, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s open-source development platform. This is big news for those who ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

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CISA has added CVE-2023-38180, a zero-day vulnerability affecting .NET and Visual Studio, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ...

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When launching an installed app, we face an error – To run this application, you must install .NET Core – which stops us from launching that particular app. The ...