Visual Studio "Orcas" will work with .NET Framework 2.0
Just come off the phone chatting to Richard Costall, who besides his real job, runs the rather splendid Next Generation User Group. He mentioned he had posted up a very recent interview with Scott Guthrie that touched on Orcas, Atlas (now ASP.NET AJAX) and WPF Everywhere. In the spirit of "that would make a nice change" approach to a work day I read the transcript. The bit that stuck out for me (and arguable I should know this stuff - but I don't!) was:
Scott:
"The great thing is all these cool features now, you can use Visual Studio now are target 2.0. In the previous versions of VS you had to upgrade both your framework and your tool, with Orcas, you can upgrade the tool without having to upgrade the framework and so you will be able to use a lot of these features, like the Javascript intellisence, the HTML designer, nested master pages, just using ASP.NET 2.0 today which means that developers can really start taking advantage of it immediately."
This is great news - so many early adopters we worked with on Visual Studio 2005 asked us for this capability - great to see we listened.
