In recent times the ‘Connected Systems Division’ (CSD) team have been talking about
Oslo and the capabilities of a ‘business process’ modelling tool.
This is all very much on the round table discussion stage – but similiar in concept
to the modelling capable within VSTS.
You would ‘create a model’, deploy it to some runtime environment which would (if
needed) pre-process and compile the bits into something runnable.
Essentially the model is key to this concept in both the design/development environments
to the runtime/hosting type environments.
Well as a start along this path here’s an article http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1159 discussing
a ‘new’ language ‘D’
Enjoy.