For the past few years or so, Microsoft has been embracing open-source software. Open-sourcing PowerShell, MSBuild, and its artificial intelligence framework CNTK are just a few examples of the ...

Hello Ars,<BR><BR>Visual Studio makes it incredibly easy for me to make GUI programs in Visual Basic and Visual C#. I've always wondered, is using Visual Basic/C#, dropping controls onto a form and ...

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Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...

A large installed base of powered speakers from a defunct manufacturer and a dwindling supply of working remote controls. Sounds like nightmare fuel for an AV professional – unless you take matters ...

In all the schemes of making a GUI where it's going to be instantly obvious how each control works, it's either going to require a lot of surrounding text (which people may or may not read, like the ...

The release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 11 is right around the corner, and as the beta has been available for a while, we couldn’t avoid giving it a go. This is the de facto development tool for the ...