Microsoft Volta - a cool new RIA technology

I heard about Volta last week and to be honest, I had no idea what it was. “Tier-splitting” sounds interesting but I wasn’t sure how it would be used in the real world. The blogosphere soundbyte of “Microsoft’s GWT” got me more confused. Ed has a very good writeup with a lot of good developer information but he focuses on the Ajax part of Volta. One of the most interesting posts was actually by Mary Jo Foley back before MIX 07. She talked about the rumored project Volta: The Tesla folks are working on a project code-named “Volta.” Volta is all about compiling any MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) assembly into cross-browser-compatible JavaScript. That means by using existing .Net and SQL…

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