This article compares the performance of using a Web Service proxy class created by Visual Studio vs. a custom created class.

After delaying rollout plans for March, Microsoft reschedules.

Developer feedback extends beta for quality reasons.

Explore how to let your applications bind to the most recent version of the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Libraries.

Learn about an add-in to automatically increment the FileVersion and ProductVersion fields in your application's files.

For large and complex applications, dealing with the amount of data collected can be difficult. See how the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Developer Edition Profiler can do an excellent job of finding performance problems by simply pointing it at an application and allowing it to collect data.

Applications with great performance are a hallmark of C++ programming, and one of the best tools for achieving great application performance is a code profiler. Take a look at the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) profiler, and see how it can be used to find code bottlenecks and improve performance.

The release of Visual Studio 2008 brings support for using the Visual Studio Class Designer with Visual C++ projects. Look at the differences in how the Class Designer works with C++ compared to purely managed languages, and learn about the range of functionality available to C++ developers.

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) code annotations enable C++ developers to attach metadata to a method's parameters to explicitly define the correct usage of the method.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: Why Be Bothered with It?

To prove that the Microsoft Foundation Class library is not dying, Microsoft has made some changes. Explore what is new and changed in MFC 8, coming with Visual C++ 2005.

Improvements to the IDE are one of the givens in any new release of Visual C++; hence, they are often overlooked. Take a closer look at some of the new features that the Visual C++ 2005 IDE delivers.

Microsoft expands Visual Studio and SQL Server to the non-programmers, hobbyists, and students with simplified, low-cost to no-cost versions.

Microsoft states their seriousness in the enterprise space with the announcement of Visual Studio 2005 Team Services.

Learn how to write macros for C++ in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Add-In that converts dialog template resources to C#