کنفرانس توسعهدهندگان حرفهای مایکروسافت (PDC) مجموعهای از رویدادها برای توسعهدهندگان نرمافزار بود. این کنفرانسها به ندرت همزمان با نسخههای بتای سیستمعامل ویندوز برگزار میشدند و به موضوعات مورد علاقه توسعه دهندگان سختافزار و نرمافزار نسخههای جدید ویندوز میپرداختند.
در سال 2011، کنفرانس توسعهدهندگان حرفهای مایکروسافت (PDC) با کنفرانس توسعه وب مایکروسافت (MIX) ادغام شد تا کنفرانس جدیدی به نام Build را ایجاد کند.
July 1992 - Moscone Center in San Francisco, California
Known as Win32 Professional Developers Conference
First demonstration of the Win32 API and first mention of "Chicago", which would eventually become Windows 95
Estimated attendance of over 5,000 developers
Windows NT 3.1 Preliminary Release for Developers (build 297) was sent to all conference attendees
December 1993 - Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California
Windows "Chicago"
Win32 and Object Linking and Embedding version 2
Estimated attendance of over 8,000
Cairo public demonstration, including the Object File System
March 1996 - Moscone Center in San Francisco, California
Microsoft demonstrated the power of new tools, renamed ActiveX
Microsoft and other industry leaders presented VBScript, an implementation of OLE Scripting; ActiveX Controls, for embedding OLE Controls into HTML documents; ActiveX Conferencing, which enables sharing data as well as applications over TCP/IP; the Internet Control Pack, allowing developers to make their applications Internet aware; and numerous other ActiveX technologies.
November, 1996 - Long Beach, California November 3–7, 1996
September 1997 - San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California
First demonstrations of Windows NT 5.0, release of Beta 1 to developers
Estimated attendance of 6,200
October 11–15, 1998 - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado
Windows NT 5.0, the release of Beta 2 to developers.