Young man, I'll have you know that I was writing multi-user applications on a 64K machine running off twin 8-inch floppies... when MS-Dos was just a gleam in a pimply adolescent's eye... (cue Marty Feldman ... working 29 hours a day for a ha'penny a lifetime... we used to live in shoebox in t'middle o't'road...)

My Very Early Marrows Just Suited Uncle Ned. That's all, folks. Yes, poor little Pluto has been kicked out of the family. Pretty rough. It was always obvious that he was adopted (orbital plane is way out of line with his siblings). The International Astronomical Union has decided that, to be called a planet, an object must have three traits. It must orbit the sun, be massive enough that its own gravity pulls it into a nearly round shape, and be dominant enough to clear away objects in its neighborhood. i.e. to be a "real" planet, you've got to be a big, fat bully. Pluto is relegated to runt-planet status, along with new girl on the block, Xena, and (humiliatingly) Ceres, a mere asteroid.

ummm your mileage may vary. But on a philosophical plane : VS 2005 is a keeper. I have been using MS development environments since... let's see... VB1... (I did C on Windows before that, but there was no "environment") I have used just about everything in between, either occasionally or intensively. There are good products and bad products, the equivalent of Windows 95 and Windows ME respectively. I have just finished two weeks doing C# on VS 2005, and I'm very pleased with it, i.e. it's a quantum leap in productivity. I especially like the Source Safe integration and the deployment aids. Alistair (no quote, no logo)