Modern hardware, such as the MacBook M4, offers incredible power, and local AI model platforms, such as Ollama, make offline development more viable, meaning desktop applications remain essential.

As a web developer, you can use Electron to build a desktop application. The framework allows developers to focus on the core functionalities of the software. This is because the framework handles the ...

This is a sample application that demonstrates how to build a client-side desktop application with JavaFX. This application allows you to sign up for an account, log in, and view a list of users. It ...

Metro-style applications are obviously going to be an important driver for Windows 8's adoption, especially on tablet machines. Although Windows 8 remains a fully fledged desktop operating system ...

Developers can now write Desktop (non-Windows-Store style) applications for Windows 8 using the latest version of the Kinect for Windows software development kit.

Programmers, coders, software engineers of all creeds and even meddling script kiddies all see themselves as artists, of a sort. Creating applications, data engineering and services across PCs, ...

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s free upcoming Visual Studio 11 Express environment will only let developers create Metro style applications and nothing desktop-related.