>It's a matter of opinion. I have almost no C/C++ experience and chose C# long before my employer started moving that way.
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>>For the little that I know about .NET, it seems to me that VB is more similar to the VFP approach than C#. I think that if one comes from VFP and have little experience in C and C++, you'd better go with VB.

The only C line of code that I could think of out of my subconscious mind is #include stdio.h, but I found myself very much comfortable with C#. To me, whether you have a C background or you have none at all, there is nothing to be afraid of going C#. And you know better than I do.