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

The Desktop App Converter has some prerequisites -- Visual Studio '15' Preview 2, the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14342, and the Desktop to UWP Packaging extension from the VS Gallery -- before ...

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.

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

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

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.