Hi David --

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>It's also the first release requiring drastic new mindset by hundres of thousands of VB developers, not to mention countless legacy applications and incalculable backward-compatibility issues.

I'm guessing that they're doing things in such a way that the new OOP features will be pretty much optional, and that won't break existing apps. Anything else would be suicide.
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VB users have been "doing OOP" since 95. They'll not be facing the all-or-nuthin challenge FoxFolk had to deal with. All MS is doing is tossing in another form of inheritance to placate the whiners -- the rest of us will continue making (bundles of) money either way. <bg>

Later... Karl