One of the challenges of working in a Microsoft development environment is the ability to filter through the massive amount of information provided by Microsoft; be it MSDN, TechNet, E-Learning, etc… If you're like me, your bookmarks tend to become cluttered and you go through a cleaning process every few months.

What to do?

I came across the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map (v2) download on MSDN the other day and spent a bit of time playing around with it. I was pleasantly surprised to find a wealth of information in the Interactive Developer Map:

• A hierarchical presentation of the Office products.
• Direct links to the top Office website resources.
• As you drill down to sub sections:
  • You are directed to the relevant online resources provided by Microsoft.
  • The most recent news is presented (I'm assuming this is dynamically generated content)
  • Relevant namespaces, web services and schemas are provided.
• All the new products are represented (there are many others provided, these are SharePoint related):
  • Visual Studio 2008, as well as VS 2005
  • Office 2007
  • MOSS 2007 (BDC, Excel Services, Enterprise Search, etc…)
  • WSS 3.0
  • Windows Workflow Foundation
  • Windows Server 2008, as well as Server 2003

Interactive Developer Map Screen Shots

Home Screen:

Drill down into Visual Studio 2008:

Drill down into SharePoint Server 2007 > Business Data Catalog:
 

Enjoy!