Your being much much closer to the action than I will ever be, I stand corrected.

Thanks,

Jim N

>>Does that mean that VS.NET *will* be the next version of VS (instead of VS7 or
>>possibly VS8)??
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>As I recall from Forum 2000 (presentations to invited members of the press, or summat), VS7 was repeatedly referred to as "Visual Studio.Net". I don't know how they're presenting it at PDC, I haven't watched the video feed yet.
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>>Does it mean that WIN.NET will have Win32 support along the lines that DOS is
>>supported in WinXX?
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>Umm, I think that you may be unclear on how the whole thing works, or I'm unclear on exactly what your question is. A .NET app is not just designed to run on the Internet. You can also create stand-alone applications that run on the desktop, running through the URT (or whatever they're calling it this week). In fact, that's currently what I'm doing with my C# apps: just stand-alone desktop apps that don't connect to anyone else. Does this clear it up for you, or did I just muddy the waters?
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>>>>I get the distinct impression, from reading the About.NET whitepaper, that VisualStudio.NET would be a separate product altogether.
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>See above. Based on the Forum 2000 presentations, you can assume that VS.NET is just VS7 renamed. If it were an actual seperate product, it would be nice if they'd let the testers know. :-)
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>Here's what I think it boils down to: VS7 will have a strong emphasis on the Universal Runtime (URT) (did they rename it to "Common Language Runtime" when I wasn't looking?). This involves the usage of the following terms that you'll hear bandied about:
>Managed C++
>C#
>ASP+
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>All three depend on the URT. The URT/CLT is a key element to the whole .NET strategy. Therefore, we have the renaming of VS7 to VS.NET. As always, this is not an official MS statement, it's just the way I see it.