The sale is for $1.2 billion in cash.
At present, the tool only repairs issues with .NET Framework 4.0.
Windows Phone 8, expected later this year, will introduce a development model based on C++/C and DirectX to facilitate code sharing with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/20/2012
The beta of the Metro tooling, which supports Windows 8 development for the desktop and tablets, is expected sometime this summer.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/15/2012
Core changes address issues with lag time between app certification and Marketplace publication.
The service is free until Aug. 1.
Microsoft also touted the backwards compatibility of Windows 8, saying Windows 7 programs will work with it.
Other upgrades include cloud services, Windows Server and System Center.
New combined company will have more than 850 employees.
The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/08/2012
By adding IaaS to its Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, Microsoft is also mounting its most formidable challenge yet to Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/07/2012
IDC predicts that Windows Phone will surpass iPhone sales in four years; Android still out front.
The second hands-on look at Microsoft's upcoming compilers-as-a-service technology is now available to developers in a June 2012 Community Technology Preview.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/05/2012
Proposed deal comes amid discouraging financial news for Dell.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/25/2012
The Release Candidate of Microsoft's object-relational mapping framework for .NET is available via NuGet.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2012
Businesses are under pressure to respond much faster to customer requirements and competitive threats.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/17/2012
In Microsoft's last fiscal third quarter, Server and Tools delivered $4.57 billion in revenue to the company, up 14 percent. The division is large, growing and increasingly profitable
The "release candidate" of Windows Server 2012 is expected at about the same time.
Lele shares his take on Azure development and how other .NET devs might want to get started.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2012
Four of five groups show a profit, with the Entertainment and Devices Division the lone money-loser.