A couple of days ago Somasegar announced that C# would have Edit and Continue support in VS 2005. Wow, great news... But hold on, haven't they been saying all year that they didn't have time to do both refactoring and edit & continue? What changed and more importantly, how has that affected the final delivery date? You don't just add in a major feature and expect everything else to stay the same. So I guess one of the following has happened:

• They found a bunch of devs and testers who have nothing better to do
• Yukon has delayed some more and since VS2005 shares the same CLR version they now have so much slack in the schedule that they can add the feature
• The new feature has delayed the product

I don't expect the first option is correct. I suspect the second has happened. Even if it's the third then we have a schedule slip somewhere and an even longer wait. Come on guys, I thought Microsoft's 21 Rules of Thumb was all about begin schedule driven and not feature driven? I'm under pressure to use alternative technologies so if the wait is too long then I'm afraid you may lose your chance.