User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

Some have likened this to Microsoft's Metro design, but in practice the closest visual predecessors look to be Office XP, Visual Studio 2003, and Expression Blend, which sport a similarly "flat ...

But on May 8, the Visual Studio team did make an announcement likely to be welcomed by those who weren't keen on what some called the depressing, bland and color-challenged VS11 interface ...

VisualStudio.Extensibility is a new framework for developing Visual Studio extensions ... Custom Dialogs to create tailored user interfaces, Query the Project System to access and interact ...