In 2002, Borland licensed the .NET Framework and SDK from Microsoft and launched .NET versions of its development environment. More recently, Borland's new CodeGear subsidiary re-introduced the Turbo ...

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

File-based apps, extension members, nameof improvements, and user-defined compound assignment operators make life easier for C# programmers. You’ll need .NET 10.

The DLR Hosting API allows a DLR language to be scripted from a CLR language such as C# and VB.NET. Through the DLR hosting API, one can easily extend the functionality of a C# or VB.NET application ...

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Xamarin is making C# development one step easier for iOS developers, enabling them to build applications in C# using Visual Studio. On February 20, Xamarin announced immediate availability of Xamarin ...

Microsoft has just released its 5th consumer technical preview of Visual Studio 2015, introducing numerous new additions to its popular software development tools. Similar to the way the software ...

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As promised, Microsoft today launched Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6. These new versions are aimed at developers targeting new platforms, including cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, ...

In the third preview of Visual Studio 17.5, Microsoft added spell-checking functionality for C#, C++, and Markdown files. If you correct any identifiers it will auto-refactor your code. Similar to ...