>>> Everything in the framework should be accessible to all languages - however, another truth is that each product team has a finite set of resources, and each has their own community that prioritize feature sets differently. So, each team has to prioritize their work accordingly. Therefore, you may find one team doing something before another, or them doing the same thing together. <<
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>Understood, but shouldn't the overall Visual Studio management group insure the teams working on VB.NET, C#.NET, et al are singing off the same sheet of music? I am thinking of the people who are identified as part of the VS team rather than the VB.NET team and the other teams which fall under the VS umbrella -- Robert Green, David Lazar, people like that. I may not be up to date on the specific individuals (Robert and David may be more involved with marketing than product development) but you get the idea -- VS management. Letting .NET language teams fight turf wars and proceed on their own agendas would seem to sabotage the promise that the .NET language we use is just a "lifestyle choice."
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>Mike

Mike;

Good point and that is how I see it. It is as if it is Access vs. VB vs. VC++ vs. VFP all over again. If Mozart were the composer of this "piece of music", all the voices would be in unison and not screaming for "self dominance". My team is better than your team or whatever.

Could this be Microsoft’s answer to Japanese Marketing? A marketing strategy used by the Japanese for VCR’s as an example was very interesting. There were four VCR manufacturers in Japan. Each one made ten different models and completed units were stock piled in a warehouse. The top four sellers from each manufacturer were manufactured in quantity and the remaining units were disposed of. The market was established based upon sales and not predetermined requirements from users.

Marketing in the United States traditionally used “Market Research” to determine what customers want before anything was built. So are we going to see which division of Microsoft wins the battle? Seems almost like Frito Lay chips. Sooner or later you may eat one of their products and then it is too late! It the mean time you may have bought more than one not knowing which flavor was the “best”.

Tom