Microsoft Live Labs Volta helps developers who build distributed applications on the .NET platform, using the Microsoft development stack (programming languages, libraries, and Visual Studio).
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.
The current version of Volta supports applications that run on the Microsoft CLR, a JavaScript-enabled browser, or a combination of the two.
In essence Volta is a re-compiler. Volta works on MSIL rather than on a textual source language and rewrites MSIL into any number of target languages, including (today) JavaScript and MSIL itself.
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