>>>Cecil --
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>>>funny enough, I had and still have the same reaction to VB. It's just an emotional response, I'm sure, because VB.NET is certainly a capable language. After my Fox experience, though, I have started hedging my bets and I do believe that C# will become obsolete AFTER VB.NET, if ever.
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>>FWIW C# is an ECMA standard language, VB.Net is proprietary.
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>Excellent point, and I think that the standard is "worth" quite a lot, actually. If Microsoft fails or "moves on to better and more amazing programming languages," I suppose that the published standard (and the huge installed C# -based app base) would help bring up other C# IDEs very quickly.

True enough.

I've never liked VB.Net syntax, either. All I've done with .Net is a small ASP.Net project with C# code-behind back in the 1.1 days, but I remember thinking C# is reasonably elegant to my eye.

Also, C# syntax is more C/C++ - like than VB.Net, so experience with C# may be more useful if you ever have to dabble in the languages that actually run the world ... ;)