Although Bolognese said there is no guarantee that Microsoft ultimately will pursue any of these directions in product form, "The first thing or area we are exp

Although Bolognese said there is no guarantee that Microsoft ultimately will pursue any of these directions in product form, "The first thing or area we are exploring is the opening up of the compiler," he said. "Right now the C# and Visual Basic compilers are 'black boxes' -- you push in a file on one side and on the other side comes out IL [Intermediate Language]. Ah. Not the kind of open I was hoping for.