Microsoft last week admitted that while it added new features to the Visual Studio XAML Designer over the years, the tool lost some of its allure among developers, who spoke up about dragging ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Alan McGovern, the creator of MonoTorrent, has spent the past 12 weeks developing a visual design tool for XAML that runs on Mono. Although McGovern had no previous experience with either Silverlight ...

Radia Perlman describes what aspects of identity and authentication blockchain might address, and compares a “blockchain“ approach with what is deployed today. Manisha Lopes discusses levers available ...

Bridging the gap between application developers and Web designers has always been a problem for companies building high-impact Web sites. Now Microsoft thinks it has the answer through its use of an ...

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Originally codenamed Project Neon, Microsoft's Fluent Design System was announced at Build last year. The firm promised that the new design language would evolve over time, and it has done just that.

After the first part of this series dealt with Windows Forms, we will now look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows UI Library 3 (WinUI 3). Both GUI frameworks are based on XAML ...

Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA (rich Internet application) and AJAX frameworks, Silverlight arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 (see my ...