Nick,

>While previously I found little to choose between C# and VB while looking at .NET and my personal way forward the comments here by several people (Craig Bernston, David Stevenson and YAG to name three) close to Microsoft are definitely indicating VB developing in a more developer friendly way than c# (toward LINQ etc) . Wry smile here as I had been leaning towards c#.

I say learn them both. That's what I've been doing. That way you can find out first-hand which parts of each you like. And, as mentioned already, your project can include both. You can code a class in C# and use it or even subclass it in VB and vice-versa.

I really think you'll find that the most difficult part to learn is the framework itself, not just the language.