VC "library" builds with visual studio

I found this very interesting blog entry by Jim Beveridge about archiving
an object library (.lib, or .a for unix-heads) on various flavors of
Visual Studio 2005 and later...

http://qualapps.blogspot.com/2007/12/winsxs-breaks-old-debug -libraries.html

so anything we ship as a lib (which isn't a dynamic library) looks to be
next to useless once we adopt a modern version of VC.

Bill