Microsoft Developer Platform Roadmap

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Wednesday, 07 October 2009

Executive Summary

The Directions On Microsoft Developer Platform Roadmap summarizes current and planned versions of Microsoft's most important developer technologies and products. The Roadmap provides a single reference for Microsoft customers and partners who need to answer basic planning questions, such as:

What technologies does Microsoft provide for building the user interface of an application?
When does support for Visual Studio 2003 end?
What are my options for building an Office-based client application?

All of the information in this report is our interpretation of the most credible public sources. Microsoft does not endorse this report, and its product plans are subject to change at any time.

Sections in the Microsoft Developer Platform Roadmap:


Introduction: And overview the tools and techologies covered in the Developer Platform Roadmap, the types of information contained about each product, and how the report is organized; also provides an overview of Microsoft's product support life-cycle phases

Presentation: Covers technologies for creating an application's user interface.


Data Access: Covers technologies for accessing, retrieving, and updating data.

Workflow and Web Services: Covers technologies for creating Web services and for automating business processes.

Data Access: Covers technologies for accessing, retrieving, and updating data.

Tools and Languages: Covers Microsoft's development environments and programming languages.

Resources: Chapter lists Directions on Microsoft articles and reports about products mentioned in the Microsoft developer platform roadmap, as well as relevant Microsoft Web sites