XML in .NET - die nächste Version

Heute (ok, gestern Abend) noch darüber geredet - LINQ for XML - und kurz danach später folgende Meldung bei Oleg gelesen:

Hot, hot, hot! Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is available for download.

Zudem hat Oleg eine beeindruckende Liste von neuen Features in VS07 (wahrscheinlich 2007) zusammengestellt - hier auszugsweise dargestellt, wobei ich nur die XML-relevanten Funktionen berücksichtigt habe:

*LINQ
The LINQ Project: this CTP represents a major milestone in the LINQ project. For more information about LINQ click here.
o VB 9.0 Language Support: This CTP contains the following language features:
+ XML literals
+ XML properties
o LINQ over XML (XLinq)
+ System.Xml Bridge Classes added – There is a set of extension methods allowing XPath / XSLT to be used over LINQ to XML trees, allow XSLT transformations to produce an LINQ to XML tree, and to validate an XElement tree against an XML Schema.
+ Event Model - This allows LINQ to XML trees to be efficiently synchronized with a GUI, e.g. a Windows Presentation Foundation application
+ Class hierarchy changes - XObject class added, XStreamingElement class (temporarily) removed
+ Various understandability / usability improvements – There have been a number of relatively minor changes done in response to internal reviews, usability studies, and external feedback to make the API more clean and consistent.
* XML
o XML Tools: XSLT Debugger
+ Enables Input Data Breakpoints allowing the user to break the execution of the style-sheet whenever a certain node in input document is hit.
o XML Editor Performance Improvements
+ Performance in the Xml Editor for Intellisense, schema validation etc is improved by implementing incremental parsing of the XML Document.
o Seamless transition between XML Editor and XSD Designer
+ Improves the experience a user has when working with an XML Schema in textual and graphical mode at the same time.