Good to "seeing" you too! <g>
I hope we can make brazilian community stronger here at UT!
I really don't care about this useless debate on C# vs. VB.NET. IL is what really matters. Obviously each language may take different strategies in the future regarding some features, but I strongly believe that all the good ideas are going to converge and make .Net even more powerfull. There are other excellent languages for .NET, such as F#, IronPhyton and Ruby. The fact that the .Net framework allows us to use them together when they finally become IL code, makes me feel confident about choosing .Net as my platform.
In any case, it is always good to understand C# code, since there is much good documentation and books available where the samples are all written in C#.
No books for while my friend. Anyway, you having my book is a big honor for me. Thank you very much! Sometimes, when I forget something about XML, I pick it myself as well <g>
Abraços!