Volta is an experimental developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications, developed at
Microsoft
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Live Labs
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. It allows developers to split their application easily into different client and server parts throughout the development lifecycle. Volta integrates with
Microsoft Visual Studio
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and the
.NET Framework
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, supporting
AJAX
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Greek mythology and tragedy
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* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Greek ...
,
JSON
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and more. It extends the .NET platform to
software as a service
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(SaaS) applications, by using existing and familiar libraries, languages, tools, and techniques.
On September 8, 2008, Microsoft took the project page offline, "while we make a few changes." Despite assurances on the page that "the technology will be available again soon", it has not yet returned. While continuing to make the software publicly unavailable,
Microsoft Research
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has published an academic paper dated November 18, 2008 based on a framework built entirely on top of Volta.
See also
*
IL2JSIL2JS Framework
- similar research project allowing running .NET languages directly in webbrowser using JavaScript
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*Google Web Toolkit
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GWT emphasizes reusab ...
a released Google product that accomplish the same goals using Java
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*Rich Internet application
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*Windows Live
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References
Volta
Beta software
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