>As some of you have heard, I’ve just joined Microsoft as the Lead PM/Evangelist for VB.NET. What this means is that I’ve been asked to help tie together the VB.NET dev group and the VB.NET developer community closely together. As part of this effort, I’ll also be working on designing the feature sets for the next few versions of VB.NET. It’s an awesome challenge, combining my love for community, cultural shifts and architecture.

YAG,

I am deeply indebted to you as we have developed a 10 MB (monolithic exe) FPDos app based on your Codebook 2.0/2.6 framework. That app now has over 150 installations. Also, to this day I like and use your naming conventions. For pointing the way, thank you very much. Microsoft surely made a good choice by putting you in charge of relations with the VB.NET developer community.

We are going to jump wholeheartedly into .NET development. Could you summarize the advantages of VS Enterprise Developer vs Professional edition? We are currently a two developer shop with three support people.

Alex