Microsoft Developer Platform at a Glance

Category

Items

Application Infrastructure

.NET Framework 4.5
Base Class Libraries (BCL)
Common Language Runtime (CLR)
LINQ (Language-Integrated Query)

ALM (Application Life-Cycle Management)

Visual Studio 2012
Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Service (TFS in the Cloud)

App Frameworks / Extensions

Enterprise Library
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) 4.5

Cloud

Windows Azure SDK

Blobs
Caching
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
HDInsight (Hadoop)
Queues
SQL Data Sync
SQL Reporting
SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
StreamInsight
Tables
Windows Azure Active Directory
Windows Azure Active Directory Graph
Windows Azure Authentication Library
Windows Azure Cloud Services (Hosted Services)
Windows Azure cmdlets
Windows Azure Management Portal
Windows Azure Marketplace
Windows Azure Media Services
Windows Azure Mobile Services
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Azure Service Management REST API
Windows Azure Service Bus
Windows Azure SQL Database
Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Windows Azure Web Sites
Windows Azure Workflow Manager

Collaboration / Integration / Workflow

Windows Azure Service Bus
Windows Azure Workflow Manager

Data Access

ADO.NET 4.5

DataSets, DataTables, and DataViews
Entity Framework
LINQ (Language-Integrated Query)
WCF Data Services

Database Server

SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 Database Engine
SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB
Windows Azure SQL Database

Development Tools

Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio LightSwitch
Windows Azure SDK
Windows Phone SDK

Devices

Kinect for Windows SDK
Microsoft Surface

Games

Kinect Game Development
Windows Phone Game Development
Xbox Live Game Development
Xbox Live Indie Game Development

Identity

Active Directory Federation Services
Windows Azure Active Directory
Windows Azure Active Directory Graph
Windows Azure Authentication Library
Windows Identity Foundation 4.5

Languages

Common Language Runtime (CLR)
JavaScript in Visual Studio 2012
Visual Basic
Visual C++
Visual C#
Visual F#

Mobile

Windows Azure Mobile Services
Windows Phone
Windows Phone SDK

Modeling

Modeling Tools for ALM in Visual Studio 2012
Visualization and Modeling SDK – Domain Specific Languages

Office Applications

Office 2013
Office Development in Visual Studio
SharePoint Development in Visual Studio

Parallel

F#
Parallel Extensions for .NET
PLINQ (Parallel LINQ)
TPL (Task Parallel Library)

RIA (Rich Internet Applications)

Microsoft Silverlight
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) 4.5
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

Services

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) 4.5
Windows Azure Cloud Services (Hosted Services)

Web

ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Web Forms
HTML / CSS
Windows Azure Web Sites
Windows Store Apps

Web Server

Internet Information Services (IIS) 8

Windows Store Apps

Windows Store Apps

Windows Runtime
Windows Library for Javascript
Windows Store app APIs

Windows Server

Windows Server 2012

Windows Services

Windows Service Applications