Desktop development components were also updated, with WPF and WinForms of special interest to Visual Studio Magazine readers. "Windows Forms and WPF continue to be the most popular platforms for ...

Microsoft provided an update on its years-long effort to bring the new Windows Forms designer up to speed with the old .NET Framework version. Duplicating the .NET Framework WinForms designer on .NET ...

With Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 3, GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat are combined into a single package for AI-powered code completions and explanations.

This means that apps built on Windows Forms, WPF, or native Win32 will be able to take advantage of the new Fluent Design APIs using UWP XAML Islands. For Visual Studio users, Microsoft is ...

Microsoft this week rolled out 59 updates with its Patch Tuesday update, including critical patches for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Visual Studio 2022 has a new designer for Web Forms, the original web application framework that goes back to the first release of .NET. The IDE, currently available as Preview 2.0, embeds a feature ...

While WPF is part of Visual Studio 2019 16.3 for Windows, the Windows Forms designer is still in preview and is available as a separate download. However, it will be added to Visual Studio in a ...