I said it's going the way of VFP which means a slowww death. If you read Ken Levy's blog (http://mashupx.com/blog/2010/12/09/visual-foxpro-strategy-at-microsoft/) you'd know that VFP was actually killed in 1996 but "kept around" just to appease developers and string them along for a few years more (2010 formally!) So no, not "dump". "Marginalizing" is a much better word just like what was done with VFP - not used for major projects, not marketed to clients or pushed to sales staff, not talked up or praised much, not putting new features in it, giving it minimal resources, etc- I think you get the picture.. But this will be a slow process and no one will want to go on the record about its demise for a while - just like VFP...

C# is in my arsenal too but VFP will continue to be there as well (and PHP). I hate corporate a-holes dictating the future of programming languages that many developers invest large portions of their lives on. I think the future of most, if not all, programming languages will be Open Source because most developers will end up feeling the same way...

BTW, PHP has not and probably will not "come and go" because it is open Source and the users control it. The key to your "come and go" status is if a large corporation like Microsoft owns it. However, that doesn't completely seem the case either since Classic VB is #5 of the list of most valued programming skills but was supposedly killed by MS many years ago. Programming languages actually are hard to kill - just look at foxpro!!

>Are you telling us or trying to imply that M$ is thinking of dumping VB in favor of C#?

>I think, most of the Fox developers went to C# while there are significant percentage of VB developers who jumped in. Developers today are playing safe in deciding what particular language they want to concentrate on. This is because of the fact that programming languages come and go except the native C and Assembler. While developers are tired of constant change in programming languages, I would say C# offers longevity because it's clean language.
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>"C# also is slated by Microsoft to become the primary development language for Windows Phone 7. Like Java, C# is big in the enterprise. However there are considerably fewer C# developers than there are Java developers. But the importance of C# as part of the Microsoft .NET strategy and its support through the Visual Studio tools suite make C# a formidable contender in the programming language race."
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>And then there was one - I already hear the arrogant at M$ saying it makes more sense to concentrate on one language- C#- to defeat Java. Sound familiar??

>C# ranked No. 6 on the most-recent TIOBE Index (2/11).
>VB.NET ranked No. 22 on the most recent TIOBE Index (2/11)!!