Starting with Microsoft Office, users have been able to double-click or drag a toolbar and have it become a floating window that can be moved or docked to the side of the application window. Here's ...

This is a little more informative, but you still can't tell what's really going on, because it's magic. If you could peer inside the My.Forms feature, you might find Visual Basic adding parallel form ...

There is a variety of GUI frameworks for .NET: Microsoft itself offers several alternatives and the agony of choice is now greater than ever, as three external providers are also involved in the ...

The team building the next release of Visual Studio has responded to developer criticism and is adding support for building Windows 8 Desktop apps to VS 2012 Express. Last month, there was quite a bit ...

Microsoft needs apps for Windows 10 to make it a success, but developers need tools to make them. With Microsoft’s first technical preview of Visual Studio 2015, they’ll be able to get started.