The Microsoft Approach to Development

A Review of the Microsoft Approach to Applications Development

I am preparing a Road Map for Microsoft Development Tools to produce a composite Review of Best Practice.
My objectves are to achieve productivity and flexibility in the Applications Development process.
I am interested in four specific approached to Application Development :-

Agile Techniques (Jasper in the Microsoft world)

Design Patterns

Mobile Applicaitons

Model-Driven Generation

I am interested in four specific kinds of Applications :-

KPIs

MDM and Customers

Mobile Applications

My Life (Web 2.0)

Microsoft have been very active in pushing forward the frontiers of Development Methodologies.
The Blog on Jasper has a very useful link at the end to a Video Presentation on the Entity Data Model Designer.

Here is a series of Useful Links

Follow these Links

Agile Development	Jasper - a Data Access Incubation Project.
Mobile Apps Architecture	Discusses 'Architecting Disconnected Mobile Applications Using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)'
Mobile Connectivity
Model-driven Development	A Very Important Topic.
Next Generation Data Access	An excellent Paper on Next-Generation Data Access, addressing the Impedance Mismatch problem, the Extended SQL (eSQL), the Entity Data Model,(EDM).
Sample Solutions	Half-a-dozen examples.