[quoted text, click to view] "David Hearn" <david.hearn@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:uaZ5zZGHIHA.284@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > "Simon Anderson" <simon.anderson@newlinecomputing.com> wrote in message
> > news:uuxLhM8GIHA.5544@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >
> >> We are both using Visual Studio 2005 SP1
> >
> > Please do not crosspost .NET questions to non-.NET groups. The *.vb.*
groups
> > are for VB6 and earlier.
>
> Does that then mean that microsoft.public.vstudio.general is for Visual
> Studio 6 and earlier, with microsoft.public.vsnet.general is for .Net
> versions? I ask this because both groups seem to only contain .Net
> discussions.
>
> D
IMHO that was likely the intent.
Visual Studio 6 and earlier was a collection of language products, each with
their own IDEs and libraries, and so there were few areas of common
interest. It was usually more expedient to post to a newsgroup dedicated to
a specific product - VB, VC, VisualJ++, ... As a result "vstudio.general"
was never that popular. Especially with VB programmers. Frequented, if at
all, by mostly VC programmers.
With Visual Studio .Net there is a common IDE and a common library and
therefore a great deal of common ground. "vstudio.general" became the
logical place to ask IDE questions separate from language issues.
"vstudio.general" is readily identifiable while "vsnet.general" is more
obscure.
There is also a .dotnet.general newsgroup that essentially covers the same
topics as vstudio.general and vsnet.general.
-ralph