Visual Studio 'Whidbey' to ease 64-bit transition for develo
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Taking another step in the major effort to enable 64-bit computing across its product lines, Microsoft will bring support for 64-bit CPUs to the next version of Visual Studio .NET, code-named "Whidbey."
Whidbey is the overhaul of Visual Studio .NET that is intended to support the next version of SQL Server, itself code-named "Yukon" and scheduled for release sometime in 2004. Yukon is billed as an especially significant release of SQL Server for developers because the .NET Common Language Runtime will be built directly into the database engine.