For the next version of the Microsoft .NET Framework (which will ship with the next release of Visual Studio® currently code-named "Orcas"), its assemblies have been divided into two groups, internally referred to as "red bits" and "green bits." The red bits include all the libraries that shipped before as part of the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 (such as mscorlib.dll and system.dll). To maintain a high assurance of backward compatibility for Visual Studio "Orcas," changes in the red bits have been greatly limited.
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