Ken,

>I've read others posts here, and elsewhere saying that VID has been dumped, and will not be included in VS.Net. Anyone here have a link to an MS article to confirm this?
>
>One of our vendors is reccomending VID training for our developers and I'm trying to determine if this would be a worthwhile endevor at this point.

Basically, the Visual Studio IDE will replace the need for VI. Look closely at the screen shot in this link about VB7:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0400/vbnexgen/vbnexgen.asp