Karl,

>Yeah, COM+ changes everything. Freethreading's really no big deal, they just need to (re)add a non-TLS allocation strategy. I'm limited in what I can say, but VS7 will definitely have an impact on many.

Thanks for your perspective. I guess the angle that interests me is not so much whether VB programmers will have to radically change their way of doing things, as much as how extensively the "guts" of VB have been re-written. The first is a training issue, the second is a possible stability issue. At least it should make for an interesting beta season.