posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 1:56 PM
by
demiliani
Refactoring cut off on VB.NET 2005
I've seen this decision only now... the Refactoring feature will be cut off from Visual Basic .NET 2005! 
The decision is announced officially on the Visual Basic .NET Team Blog. Really a bad news...
Seems that the main problem for this cut is the limited time to release the product... I don't agree with this, I think that all the community and VB developers will be more happy to have a complete product some months later than an incomplete product soon. The Sam Gentile's post about this completely respect my opinions.
Why VB.NET must be always a step under C#? I agree with Sam: by cutting Refactory the team has deprived the worthwhile VB.NET community of having a true enterprise language. 
A little "message on the bottle" for the VB.NET team... I don't know what are your schedule for the features of VB.NET, but you've done a big error and caused a big lack on the final product that we're waiting for. I love VB.NET and I hope that errors like this can't be the cause to migrate to other languages... Think about this!