Longhorn support only with Orcas ?!?

Visual Studio "Orcas" (2005)

The Whidbey release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will represent a significant milestone in the Microsoft developer tools roadmap. Following the SQL Server Yukon and Visual Studio Whidbey wave of products, the next major platform update will be the Windows operating system release code name "Longhorn". The Whidbey release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will run on this landmark operating system release, as will applications built with Visual Studio Whidbey.

In addition, Microsoft is planning a version of Visual Studio, code name "Orcas," designed to take advantage of the features introduced in Windows Longhorn. These features include support for Longhorn advanced user interface capabilities (code name "Avalon"), storage services (code name "WinFS"), and Web services capabilities (code name "Indigo"). For example, Longhorn will introduce a declarative programming model (code name "XAML"), that will complement existing programming languages and Windows Forms by improving productivity when developing Longhorn-specific client UI.

In addition, Orcas will enable developers to take advantage of the WinFS capabilities to find, relate, and act on information, including support for event-based actions and synchronization classes. Finally, Orcas will deliver support for Indigo, Microsoft's next generation programming model for building Web services. Indigo introduces a unified model for developing connected applications on the Windows platform that seamlessly merges remote procedure calls, messaging, and remote object invocation. Future updates to this document will include additional information about the Orcas release and feature set.

So if I read this right, does it mean s that Whidbey will not support Longhorn ?
If it's true (and I think it is) a lot of posts seems to create some confusion between Whidbey abd the new technologies like Indigo or XAML.

 

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  • ::o if I read this right, does it mean s that

    ::Whidbey will not support Longhorn ?



    Exactly. Longhorn API comes comes at least a year after hidbey (possibly longer). So all the nice stuff is - just not relevant for 99.9% of the people out there.

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