The fourth installment of our beginning programming project loads a file more efficiently and prompts the user to save when changes are made. As you may recall, in part 3 of this series, called The WinForms Notepad Project: Icons and Open Files (Premium), I used a StreamReader object to read the contents of a text…

For the third installment of this starter project, we’ll add an app icon and program our Notepad clone to open text files. First, the application icon, since the default Windows Forms icon is obviously pretty ugly. Here, we have a number of choices: We could make our own icon, which would be preferable. We could…

In investigating the history of Windows application programming, I’ve renewed my interest in software development. To be clear, I’m many years removed from my time writing code, so I probably have as much to learn as anyone reading this series. That will be disappointing, I know, to some experienced developers. But for those looking to…

Microsoft released the first public preview of its coming Project xCloud game streaming service today. Here’s a quick peek.

Microsoft is working on a new to-do style app currently called Project Cheshire and while it is not available currently, I was able to get my hands on the product.

The good news? Windows users are about to get placeholders back. The bad? This functionality is coming from Dropbox, not Microsoft's OneDrive.

The Office LTSC 2024 commercial preview is now available for organizations that need to keep their Office apps on-premises.

Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft said that Microsoft should finally allow Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to stream the Xbox games they own this year.

Microsoft announced the release of .NET 9 Preview 1 today and revealed its two big focus areas: Cloud-native and intelligent app development.

Google Bard, the AI chatbot that launched last year in response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT is being rebranded to Gemini. There's also a paid Advanced version with more features.

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s startup working on brain implants to connect humans to computers and potentially help people with paralysis has just gone through its first-in-human clinical trial.

Google today announced several enhancements to Project IDX, its experimental AI-powered cloud-based developer IDE.

With the Pixel 8 Pro, Google has finally delivered the no-compromises Android alternative to the iPhone that it has always promised.

343 Industries revealed a major change in how it will update Halo Infinite going forward. Does this signal the enshittification of the title, or is this just another clue that the golden age of unlimited free video game updates is coming to a close? It could be a bit of both. First, the news: In…

Apple's plan to ship the first iPhone with an in-house modem instead of a Qualcomm one in 2025 may have hit a snag, according to a new Bloomberg report.

A new report claims that Amazon is gearing up to replace Android with a new OS of its own making in its Fire TV and other devices.