Future Directions
Given the amount of language change that developers must digest in Visual Basic .NET, the principal plan for the language in the future is stability. Having made significant compatibility breaks with this version, we are now returning to a much more conservative stance regarding changing the behavior of existing code, restricting ourselves primarily to fixing obvious bugs. As much as possible, we wish to allow people time to make the conversion from Visual Basic 6.0 (and earlier versions) without imposing any additional concepts or new learning on them.
There were, however, some features that did not make it into Visual Basic .NET that we are strongly considering for the future. Many have to do with improving compatibility with ...
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