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- Volta (exe)
- The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier Web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late...
- Tags: Application, Compiler, Client, Volta, Productivity, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-12
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTWow!Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. What a great description and comparison of Volta to GWT!I am so excited about Volta and it's possibilities!-Brandonhttp://dynamics-ax.blogspot.comRE: Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTNice idea, but slow as hell. Try the demos at...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scripting languages, Volta, Microsoft Corp., GWT, Google Inc., GWT JSIO
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT
- Is Microsoft's "cloud programming" toolset Volta -- which Microsoft released in early preview form this week -- a "me-too" response to Google's Google Web Toolkit GWT? I've seen that argument from fellow ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette and others around the Web. I asked Microsoft Volta Architect...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Google Web Toolkit, Volta, Execution Environment, Scripting Languages, C#, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Programming Languages, Software Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Microsoft creates GWT clone
- While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. "JavaScript is just an assembly language," says Live Labs product manager...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Tier, CLR, GWT, Volta, Upshot, Silverlight 1.1, .Net, C#, Web Browsers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolset
- Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolsetyup![i]“It’s taken ten years for me to solve this problem. It will take another decade for this to be where it needs to be.”[i]No doubt about it, but in the meantime there will be no more M$, just Linux and OSS! :)RE:...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Volta, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Delivers, Microsoft .NET, Softies
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Microsoft delivers test build of its 'Volta' cloud-programming toolset
- Microsoft is making available a first, publicly available test build of a developer toolset that allows programmers to write Web applications using existing .Net-based tools and languages. The toolset -- code-named "Volta" (and previously code-named "Tesla") -- is the brainchild of Erik Meijer, a SQL Server architect...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Programming, Volta, Meijer, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.
- Web 2.0, among other things, would include a more advanced client side development model than the current HTML / CSS / Javascript approach. Traditional web programming technologies, though powerful, were not designed for the kinds of applications we build today, and hence, can be complicated to create.The problem with new...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Web 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Volta: Browser capabilities on steroids
- Volta: Browser capabilities on steroidsRevenue maintenance and exploration of new ways to continue make money.Everybody know Microsoft is one exceptionally mediocre software developing company and there are just so many ways to come up with new ideas for the office applications. New versions have to come or Microsoft will...
- Tags: Web browsers, Now IT, Microsoft Corp., Volta, Web browser, Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Volta: Browser capabilities on steroids
- I ran across Mary Jo Foley's recent post in a series on Microsoft code names where she discussed Volta. As I tend, as a developer, to look at these things from a different angle, I thought I'd add my own explanation of the technology.I first saw Volta mentioned in a...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Web Browser, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta
- A Microsoft Code Name a Day: VoltaHow 'bout "Screwup" or "Screw the Customer?"Now that I think about it, that name is applicable to almost any MSFT product from 1995 onward with the possible exception of the original XP (before it was fatally bogged down with "security enhancements" - can you...
- Tags: Linux, Volta, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects
- Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained to me this week how Microsofts growing number of data-programmability pieces will come together...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- 'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?
- Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
Additional Resources
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?The area I see the most room fpr improvmentis not in new laguages or even expanding current laguages. It is the ability to marry them together easily. This has been a major problem for Microsoft in the past,...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Development tools, .NET, inmate, Microsoft Corp., hot button, programming, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front? Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company's Redmond campus this week for its second Lang.Net symposium. The three-day conference is all about the future of "programming languages, managed...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Car Wars in Detroit
- The electric Fisker, photo courtesy of CNET. The world's two biggest auto makers are taking their fight to new territory. Toyota today announced it will make a plug-in hyrbid. This car would run on gasoline or you could plug it in to recharge...
- Tags: Car, Plug-in, Ford Motor Co., Fisker, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Reading Windows tea leaves
- Though not exactly lighting up the blogosphere, speculations about future directions in the Windows platform have been rife. This article at APC compiled the various rumors together about Windows 7 (the successor to Vista...whatever name it ends up having) into a neat package, and this article on Ars Technica spoke...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, UI, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- My rich Internet application predictions for 2007. How did I do?
- My rich Internet application predictions for 2007. How did I do?With a record like that...you should go to work for Gartner. You would be their top analyst.:-)Here's one for 2008Despite WPF having been in the wings for so long (AKA .NET 3.0), MS have been distracted from creating a...
- Tags: LINQ, rich Internet application prediction, rich Internet application, Silverlight 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- News to know: HP zero days; IE patches; Missing Mac apps; Microsoft service packs galore
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: IE gets a Patch Tuesday makeover. Microsoft bulletin. Zero-day flaw haunts HP laptop models. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases public test build of Vista SP1 David Morgenstern: Uncovering the missing Mac OS X applications ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Patch Management, Amazon.com Inc., Service Pack, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
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