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Microsoft Codenames
Microsoft codenames are the codenames given by Microsoft to products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions prior to the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available.
Visual Studio Codenames
Thunder
Visual Basic 1.0. The first version of Visual Basic. The standard dialogs and controls created by the Visual Basic runtime library all have "Thunder" as a prefix of their internal type names (for example, buttons are internally known as ThunderCommandButton).
Zamboni
Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1. After Zamboni, an ice resurfacing machine.
Aspen
Visual Studio 98 (6.0). Ski Resort in Colorado
Cool
C#. Short for: C-based Object Oriented Language
Rainier
Visual Studio .NET 2002. After Rainier, a small town south of Seattle. Mount Rainier is a dormant volcano.
Everett
Visual Studio .NET 2003. After Everett, a large city near Seattle.
Whidbey
Visual Studio 2005. After Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. A little farther from Seattle than Everett.
Orcas
Visual Studio 2008. Named after Orcas Island, located in Puget Sound. Farther still from Seattle.
Rosario
Team System-only release after Visual Studio 2008. Named after a resort located on Orcas Island.
Burton
Visual Studio Team System. Unknown, although it is the name of a North American manufacturer of snowboards.
Hawai
Successor or Orcas. An island 'much further out' than Orcas or Whidbey. Also, where the development team plan to celebrate its completion.
Hatteras
Visual Studio Team System's Source Control System. Named after the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina.
Ocracoke
Visual Studio Team System load testing suite. Named after the Ocracoke Island Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, also in North Carolina.
Currituck
Team Foundation Work Item Tracking. Named after the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla, North Carolina.
Bodie
Team Foundation Server SDK. Named after the Bodie Island Lighthouse in North Carolina.
Whitehorse
Visual Studio Team System's designers for architects.
Includes Application Designer, Logical Data Center Designer, System Designer, and Deployment Designer.
Fidalgo
Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX. Named after Fidalgo Island, located in Puget Sound in the San Juan Islands.
Tuscany
Online version of Visual Studio. Currently a research project.
Lightning
.Net CLR
Clarity
LINQ. Language Integrated Query Language extensions to expose query syntax natively to languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C#
Milan
Microsoft Surface. Table-top style computer with multi-touch touchscreen interface.
Mira
Windows CE .NET-based technology for smart displays.
Singularity
Experimental operating system based on the Microsoft .NET platform, using software-based type safety as a replacement for hardware-based memory protection. Project homepage.
Avalon
Windows Presentation Foundation
Hail Storm
.Net My Services. Project to make MSN-hosted user data available to the same users at non-Microsoft web sites; never released
Indigo
Windows Communication Foundation
Jolt
Silverlight 1.0
Paxos
Silverlight 1.1
Toaster
In Microsoft jargon, the "toaster" is the hardware equivalent of fictional entities, such as the Contoso company or the http://tempuri.org/ URI, used in documentation and sample code as placeholders to be redefined by third-party developers.
Astoria
A framework that takes advantage of Windows Communication Foundation and the Entity Data Model (EDM) to allow developers to expose data in the cloud. Read More...
Rotor
Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI)
Atlas
An implementation for ASP.NET of Ajax native to the .NET Framework 2.0.
Windows Codenames
Whistler
Windows XP
Springboard
Windows XP SP2
Longhorn
Windows Vista/ Windows Server 2008 (In Development). Named after the Longhorn Bar in the Whistler-Blackcomb resort
Fiji
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Polaris
Windows Media Player 11 for XP
Aurora
Windows Media Player 11 for Vista
SQL Server Codenames
Hydra
SQL 6.5
Sphinx
SQL 7.0
Shiloh
SQL 2000
Yukon
SQL 2005
Katmai/Akadia
SQL 2008
Windows Live Codenames
Kahuna
Tornado
MSN Messenger
Istanbul
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005
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