Microsoft has added Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop to its lineup of free, lightweight development tools in response to developer feedback. S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president ...

Visual Studio 2012: Free desktop development tool out today, first update outlined Visual Studio 2012 to receive quarterly updates courtesy of new agile approach.

After hearing objections from developers, Microsoft will offer a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 package for desktop application development after all.

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.

Microsoft backs down from its decision to pull desktop UI development from its Visual Studio Express suite, and will be releasing Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop this fall.

Microsoft released two new editions of its free Visual Studio Express 2012 series that will target F# and traditional Windows desktop applications. This enables developers using C#, C++, F#, and ...

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s free upcoming Visual Studio 11 Express environment will only let developers create Metro style applications and nothing desktop-related.

Visual Studio App Center, a mobile-centric resource for building, testing, releasing and monitoring apps, now supports WPF and WinForms desktop development.

Microsoft has instituted a big change with its free Visual Studio 11 Express suite that's leaving some current- and soon-to-be Windows 8 developers up in arms: it's pulling support for creating ...

No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps.