Microsoft has had a checkered history in the “casual” development tool market. The company hit home runs with the original Access database and the original Visual Basic. But many of its other runners ...

OpenSilver 2.2 debuted today with a focus on helping developers revive Visual Studio LightSwitch legacy applications. OpenSilver was created as an open source alternative to Microsoft Silverlight, a ...

One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a businessperson to build his or her own application without needing a professional programmer. Over the years, numerous attempts at ...

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Microsoft will beta a version of Visual Studio for business managers, called Visual Studio LightSwitch Microsoft is gearing up to release a version of its Visual Studio integrated developer ...