* Enhancements coming up in 'Orcas'

Here is the list of some enhancements coming in next version of Visual Studio named 'Orcas' whose beta is expected to come out sometime in April 2007 with CTP already out.

• With Orcas you will be able to target the version of .NET runtime against which u want to build ur project like .NET 2.0, 3.0 , 3.5 .... . Accordingly IDE will show u the features available with that version.
• Enhanced HTML designer similar to Expression Web product with split view for HTML view and WYSIWYG.
• Enhanced CSS support.
• Nested Master Pages.
• AJAX integrated and enhanced javascript debugging support.
• Out of the box LINQ support.
• ...and many more :-)

~bye & take care~

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