Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...

REDMOND, Wash., March 5, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the Visual Studio® .NET Open Tools Platform, a set of three core technologies that enable developers, independent software vendors (ISVs ...

Microsoft also releases a bevy of next-generation Visual Studio tools, including Visual Studio Community 2013, which is a full-featured Visual Studio 2013 sans enterprise app development capabilities.

NEW YORK — Nov. 12, 2014 — On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on ...

With licensing restrictions that favor individual users and open source developers, the free-to-use edition of Visual Studio offers non-Microsoft developers quite a lot, too With Visual Studio 2015 ...

Android developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio now have more choice. They can opt for Microsoft’s cross-platform toolset or use an Android development add-on recently released as open source.