Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year.

A lot has changed in those 20 years, as illustrated by a picture Microsoft posted of the contents of Visual Studio 97 (below), the first iteration of the IDE. Back then it was pretty much just a ...

In Visual Studio 2010, you can get IntelliSense support and eliminate some annoying warnings by applying Service Pack 1. After installing SP1, start Visual Studio, select Extension Manager from the ...

The technologies bundled as HTML5 finally support what developers have been trying to get HTML to do for decades.

HTML5 doesn't eliminate the need for JavaScript, but it does reduce it, simplifying life both for Web developers and tool developers by replacing what used to require code with declarative settings.

Microsoft is gearing up to release a version of its Visual Studio integrated developer environment that it promises will be easy enough for even business managers to use.

Company hones Visual C#, Web Forms, and icons in forthcoming toolset On the road to delivering a final version of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has instituted some changes to the upcoming toolbox.