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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 in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.

Many people, including me, are thinking that Volta is a clone for GWT. So I took advantage of the presence of Erik Meijer in Paris to make a small interview of him.
Erik Meijer is the co-creator of Link and the creator of Volta. He is an architect in the SQL Server group at Microsoft.
It was a real pleasure for me to meet this guy.

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Dion Almaer

With Microsoft Volta there has been a lot of comparison to GWT, especially as Eric M said that it will “blow GWT out of the water”. There are some features that I am very interested in wrt Volta...

GWT and Volta

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Continuing on the theme of "something that isn't Java" from yesterday, Microsoft have taken a step in Google's footsteps with Volta. The best way to describe this is like saying that it's the .NET equivalent of GWT- the Google Web Toolkit that creates JavaScript applications from Java... JavaScript/GWT and now Volta are for more light weight everyday applications.

Microsoft Volta- Experimental and Electrifying...

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Ed Burnette

Analysis
If Volta had been released two years ago it would have been revolutionary. At this point, though, Microsoft is playing catch-up with Google and Adobe. Volta also sends a confusing message to .NET developers targeting the browser. Silverlight 1.1 is supposed to include a full .NET environment inside the browser for multiple platforms. Now with Volta you can get “the illusion of” the same thing without a plug-in. So why do you need Silverlight?

Another concern developers will have is Microsoft’s commitment to browsers other than Internet Explorer. If, for example, a new browser or operating system came out that broke GWT, then the source code is available so you could fix it yourself if Google’s GWT team wasn’t fast enough. That’s not an option with Volta.

Microsoft creates GWT clone

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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 in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.

 

Volta

Source : dotnetguru.org

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Venkatesh Mandalapa :

And the freaking great and interesting part is that, they have written a translator that converts MSIL to JAVASCRIPT!!!! You heard me - they freaking converted the whole .NET library and some more libraries to be compiled to Javascript! Whatever stuff you can do in C#, can be converted and executed as Javascript. So then the javascript is sent to the client side (which is supposed to be a huge file - performance at least seem to suck for right now) and executed in the browser.

Volta / Linq - Microsoft’s unreleased technologies - Tech talk at ASU on Oct-5, 07

Source dotnetguru.org

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"Meijer doesn't envisage having to distribute a runtime engine such as .NET, the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) or Flash. Rather, he wants to use what is already available. Therefore he envisages .NET IL (intermediate language) binaries becoming a universally executable format. The runtime could be the CLR (Common Language Runtime), or the JVM, or the Flash player, or the browser. This would be transparent to the developer, because some intermediate piece would translate the .NET IL to JavaScript, or Java, or a Flash SWF. or somehing else."

‘Volta’: Microsoft’s dev platform in the Cloud?

 

"You can write code that targets Silverlight, as an example, and if the target browser doesn’t support Silverlight, the code will be “converted” to a DHTML / CSS / Javascript implementation on the fly. In fact, that implementation can be tailored to the unique requirements of the browser, and functionality can be boosted or reduced depending on what that browser can handle."

Volta: Browser capabilities on steroids

 

Image Source wikipedia.org

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