Updates to the ArcGIS 10 and ArcGIS 10.1 deprecation plan

General:

Well – The new ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1 versions are already on deprecation schedule. ESRI has announced the deprecation of these versions, and blogged a plan to go with it.

The highlights are:

• ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release with full Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support. With ArcGIS 10.1 we will no longer support VBA development.

• ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release that the ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET will support Visual Studio 2008.

• ArcGIS 10.0 is the last planned release of ArcInfo Workstation.

References:

You can read all about the updated deprecation plan on ArcGIS’s blog site:

http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgis/archive/2011/09/30/Update-to-ArcGIS-10-and-10.1-Deprecation-Plan.aspx

Please make sure to keep up-to-date on the product and platform support plans. the latest version is apparently on:

http://downloads2.esri.com/support/TechArticles/ArcGIS10and101Deprecation_Plan.pdf