Visual Basic 2005 is part of the Visual Studio 2005 platform, which is due to ship later this year. Developers, however, can use the refactoring plug-in with beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005.

REDMOND, Wash. — May 10, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. and Developer Express Inc. today announced the availability of Refactor! for Visual Basic® 2005, a no-cost plug-in that brings refactoring to Microsoft® ...

“I’m sorry that these issues made it to production and degraded’the performance of the IDE,” said Microsoft’s Chris Mayo, Visual Basic performance manager at Microsoft, in a memo cited in Vick’s blog.