The last five years have seen a significant increase in the use of unit tests by developers as a key way to improve software quality, thereby reducing the overall cost of software development over ...

Visual Studio 2012 has ambitious goals -- goals that go well beyond just supporting Windows 8. Microsoft has a lot riding on Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5. At the recent launch event in ...

Building Windows Store apps In such a broad panorama of editions, target platforms, and target applications, it is difficult to identify a sole, outstanding, key new component of Visual Studio 2012.

Just like clockwork, the Visual Studio team is continuing to push ahead with what look to be quarterly updates to Visual Studio 2012. On April 15, the team made available for download the first ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The ...

On November 26, Microsoft made available for download the promised Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 release. The update, which includes new features and not just fixes, is one product reflecting a trend ...

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