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Volta

http://labs.live.com/volta

• Title: Democratizing The Cloud With Volta
• Division by 0 is the goal, not an error - (infinite acceptance)
• "Cool" tools are often not the adopted/"successful" tools
• if the problem is perceived to be real by the "customer", it is real and should be addressed. Even if the implementor doesn't agree.
• When running Visual Studio Debugging can be done in
  • Browser Javascript
  • CLR
• allows for things like:

Imports Microsoft.LiveLabs.Volta.MultiTier
Imports Microsoft.LiveLabs.Volta.Html

<RunAtOrigin()> Public Class Dictionary
  Private Dictionary As XDocument
  Const Path As String = "C:\OPTED\wb1913_{0}.htm"
  Const Letters As String = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

  Public Sub New()
    Dictionary = <?xml version="1.0"?>
                 <Dictionary>
                 <%= From C in Letters _
                     Select XmlElement.Load(String.Format(Path, C)) %>
                 </Dictionary>
  End Sub
...
End Class

• Integrates JavaScript APIs into Visual basic; adds intelisense completion for all JS classes
• End-to-end profiling with a fancy GUI