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Microsoft has pushed a first public look at Visual Studio 2026 — billed internally as Visual Studio 18 and distributed through a new "Insiders" channel — and the headline is simple: Microsoft has folded much deeper AI into the IDE while polishing the look, settings, and model control surface...

JetBrains has pushed a major architectural change into ReSharper 2025.2 that moves most heavy analysis out of Visual Studio’s UI process into a separate 64‑bit worker process — a shift the company says reduces cumulative UI freezes during solution startup by roughly 61 percent in its lab tests...

Wine’s bi-weekly development stream delivered another incremental but meaningful update this week with the release of Wine 10.14, bringing an upgraded graphics stack, an updated Mono engine, networking improvements, CI infrastructure changes, and a tranche of pragmatic bug fixes that will matter...

Microsoft’s patch for the long‑standing .NET Framework issue that broke apps using Active Directory Forest Trust information has surfaced again in reporting, but the story is more nuanced than a three‑year “finally fixed” narrative — the .NET/System.DirectoryServices regression was identified in...

CVPeople Tanzania’s recent IT Airport Supervisor recruitment notice doubles as a signal: Tanzania’s airports are deepening their commitment to on‑site technical teams to support biometric enrollment and immigration control systems, and the advertised role frames that expansion as both an...

Title: Should .NET Developers Learn Azure or AWS in 2025? By: [Your Name], Senior IT Reporter — WindowsForum.com Lead Short answer: It depends. For .NET developers entrenched in Microsoft shops and regulated industries, Azure remains the most pragmatic first move. For those aiming for broad...

Microsoft has published Preview 7 of .NET 10, a release that looks and smells very much like “near feature-complete” for the platform’s November launch — bringing a clutch of pragmatic developer productivity improvements, security enhancements such as passkey integration for ASP.NET Identity...

Microsoft has announced the removal of Windows PowerShell 2.0 from shipping Windows images, a deliberate end to a legacy runtime that has lingered in the OS for more than a decade and which Microsoft says will be excised from Windows 11 (starting with version 24H2 in August 2025) and Windows...

In today’s fast-paced world of software development, few frameworks have evolved as impressively as Microsoft’s .NET. Once a Windows-only solution, .NET has transformed into a versatile, open-source, and cross-platform ecosystem that is increasingly indispensable for modern software projects...

In a move that has left many seasoned Windows and .NET developers scratching their heads, Microsoft has decided to close the long-sought feedback request for a universal UI builder—one that could potentially rival the dependable WinForms designer of yesteryear. The decision, announced last week...

On July 25, 2024, Microsoft announced a significant vulnerability indexed as CVE-2024-38095, affecting .NET and Visual Studio. This vulnerability introduces a denial of service (DoS) risk, which could potentially compromise the performance and availability of applications leveraging these...

On August 13, 2024, Microsoft issued an update regarding a significant elevation of privilege vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-38081, which affects the .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio environments. This article delves into the implications of this vulnerability, detail its technical...

On August 13, 2024, Microsoft issued an alert regarding a significant security vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-38167. This vulnerability notably affects .NET and Visual Studio, raising concerns among developers and organizations relying on these technologies. Overview of CVE-2024-38167...

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v7.1 The Windows Community Toolkit has another update filled with improvements and features! We’re thrilled to announce version 7.1 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community. 🎉 If you are new to the...

Daniel Paulino created his first Windows app when he was at a career crossroads: Was he good enough to have a successful career as a developer? He wasn’t sure, but Daniel also knew he needed a timer app that connected to his workout band. “At the time, no app did this. I had this curiosity. That...

After many months of invigorating the Windows Community Toolkit with a multitude of improvements and features; we are happy to announce version 7.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community.🎉 If you are new to the Toolkit, the Windows...

We are planning to upgrade our windows server from 2003 to 2016. In our existing windows server 2003 we hosted dotnet webservers and its running on visual studion 2010. If we upgrade server from 2003 to 2016, is this required to upgrade my visual studio application from 2010 to higher version or...

Microsoft have released .Net Framework 4.7 which includes numerous fixes and updates (see below) Included are both download options, offline and online Downloading and installing the .NET Framework 4.7 You can download the .NET Framework 4.7 from the following locations: .NET Framework 4.7...

This page is intended for advanced manual installation of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for VS 2013 and VS 2015. You can install everything you need for Microsoft Azure development using the Web Platform Installer. Link Removed

The ClickOnce Bootstrapper package for the .NET Framework 4.6 enables the .NET Framework 4.6 entry in the list of available prerequisites in Visual Studio 2013. Link Removed