>Ken,
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>>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?
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>>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.
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>Basically, the Visual Studio IDE will replace the need for VI. Look closely at the screen shot in this link about VB7:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0400/vbnexgen/vbnexgen.aspThere's also a good article over at DevX:
http://www.devx.com/upload/free/features/vbpj/2000/08aug00/ts0008/tsov0008/tsov0008.asp that talks about the changes and toward the end confirms that VID as a separate product is gone in VS7. It's functionality is absorbed by the IDE.
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