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Hello,
Now, I don't know if there is something like this already here on MSDN, but I've been pulling my hair out for the past several hours over issues that I would like to pose before the Microsoft Team directly responsible for developing the .Net Framework, and I think it might be handy for them as well to be able to see a community forum that says:
Hey, .Net team, why don't you add this?
  Or
Could you do it this way for these reasons?

Personally, I find the Invention of the Friend/Internal accessor to be defined only for a single purpose: Selfish bad programming. 

There are quite a few Great components out there, that could be made just a little bit better, except the .Net dev team made most of the functionality "Friend", so the only recourse is to either re-invent the wheel (in complete defiance of what OOP is all about) or decompile the .net libraries and change the accesssors to protected, which is illegal/unethical. 

But currently, i have not foudn a forum here that directly allows one to communicate with the Develpers of the Windows.FOrms.Namespace, or the Data.Linq namespace, etc, etc, etc.  Sure there are forums that you can ask questions and post comments, but there is no way to really communicate back in a public setting with the .Net crew who developed these libraries so that when they are developing .net 4.0 they can get a direct feed back from the developers who use this stuff and get some insight into: Oh, why not make this more accessible to the developers so they can actually program what they want, not what we give them.

I think it would be beneficial to all, as well, as opening up other people's comments to truly create a better product, because as it is now, I find .net as equally frustrating as it is helpful.  It is one thing to be able to create an application fast, but it would be quite another to be able to create it right at the same time, and currently the two are mutually exclusive.

Regards,
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner

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Answer 1

For IBM customers there is an organization called Guide that is independent of IBM but does do for IBM products what you are describing for Microsoft products. I have not heard of any such thing for Microsoft products, although there must be something such as that in bits and pecies and not formally and/or not made available to the public. The relevant of the Guide organization is that it is an example of the type of thing you are describing. IBM does participate in Guide very much; they take requests and suggestions such as yours and later respond with an answer of whether they intend to accept them, consider accepting them, or never accept them or whatever. IBM also makes important announcements at Guide; they announced the intent to develop OS/2 to the world at Guide; I know, I was there.

Oh, but wait; let me see here. Are you a member of Microsoft Connect? I guess that is the place to make suggestions.

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