Roger Jennings
has spotted very interesting information on Scott Guthrie's weblog.
It's not like there is anything but excellent content on Scott's blog,
but I haven't seen this kind of information elsewhere before.
Scott has published a first post on
using LINQ with ASP.NET projects a few days ago. Roger writes:
Scott's LINQ with ASP.NET post provoked a large number of comments and replies, but the most interesting reply included this gem:
We are looking to ship the second half of next year.
We will start having full Orcas CTP drops (of all technologies)
starting later this summer, and will also have a go-live license of
Orcas before the final RTM date. So not too far off now when you can
use the above techniques in production.
This is the first Orcas RTM estimate and go-live committment directly from a Microsoft employee that I've encountered.
If you browse the whole set of comments, you may spot other related information, which includes:
- "We
are making some changes to the CLR for that release, but are also being
careful to keep a high runtime compat bar to ease deployments (the
following release will then have more engine additions)."
- "Orcas will be compatible with the 2.0 runtime. There will then be optional framework components you can install as well."
This
confirms that one of the design goals for LINQ is still to keep it
compatible with .NET 2.0. What's new to me is that Microsoft is trying
to keep the changes to the .NET runtime very light for the next release.