CLR Inside Out: New Library Classes in "Orcas" -- MSDN Magazine, April 2007

CLR Inside Out: New Library Classes in "Orcas" -- MSDN Magazine, April 2007: "New Library Classes in 'Orcas'" Orcas is the next version of Visual Studio. Here are some of the new classes/functionality being added: Suite B Support : New cryptographic algorithm implementations to make VS compliant with some NSA specs. These include Elliptic Curve Cryptography, ECDSA and ECDH Big Integer Support : Very cool, allows users to represent numbers whoose size is no longer determined by the number of address bytes, but by the amount of memory. High-Performance Sets : Useful to the normal programmer - collections that have been implemented with performance in mind and additionally also implement set operators like union. Pipes : Another piece that I am interested in checking out. Useful for interprocess communication.