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The problem with making confident predictions about the future is that time has a way of making a liar out of you despite your best intentions. As Steven posted Friday, VB will not have any refactoring features beyond "rename symbol" in VB 2005. This was an extremely painful cut and one that we tried to move heaven and earth to avoid, but in the end we didn't feel we could get the features into the product in a high-quality way without causing serious risk to our shipping goals. Balacing the cries for refactoring against the cries for us to ship as soon as possible was difficult, and we really regret the fact that it ain't going to happen this time (for the most part... it's not like rename symbol is chopped liver or anything!).

On the other hand, it does mean that we get a while longer to have lots of colorful, humorous arguments about whether we should have a "Refactoring" menu in VB or not. Oh, joy...