Improve the Success of Your Development Applications

Many development projects face challenges such as application backlog, increasing pressures to support the needs of the business, lack of user and stakeholder engagement, as well as disparate development tools, and low productivity caused by ineffective collaboration, communication and project management within an organization. To help your developers improve success rates and rapidly deliver high quality, secure solutions and dynamic, data-driven applications, Microsoft provides a tightly integrated software development platform.

The Microsoft Development Platform enables you to participate more successfully in a broader Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) strategy, increase team collaboration and productivity, and improve software quality. It comprises an integrated server with a single data store, featuring built-in collaboration and quality tools to assist your entire development team, as well as a common development framework for Web services, rich client applications, smart devices, and more.

Because the Microsoft Development Platform is a tightly integrated part of the Microsoft Application Platform, you have the confidence that your solutions will interoperate seamlessly within your existing environment, allowing you to leverage your existing IT investments.

Increase your ability to meet project deadlines, and deliver high-quality software.

Integrated platforms and tools, along with best practices, enable development teams to work faster and more effectively. By providing managers with more predictability and visibility into the development life cycle, you can also improve the management of your development projects.

Leverage existing skills to create powerful applications that operate through familiar interfaces.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 offers a single, fully integrated development environment for all types of development, including applications for Microsoft Windows, the Microsoft Office system, the Web, and mobile devices.

Using the Microsoft integrated development platform, individual developers and teams can:

• Increase productivity and quality through integrated and familiar tools.
• Develop, test, and secure your critical Web applications and infrastructure.
• Reduce costs through better visibility of your development process.
• Provide better predictability and planning through integrated process and methodology support.