Your interpretation of what's happening with VB is absolutely false. Look at the following evidence:

- A VB SDK for Windows Phone has been released.
- The VS team is hiring VB people (Example, Robert Green recently returned to the VS team)
- LightSwitch demos are primarily VB and the LightSwitch team is primarily VB people
- Most Office automation/extension examples and coding is done in VB
- SharePoint development is primarily VB
- There are VB-specific sessions planned for the MVP Summit next month

VB is very much alive at Microsoft.

(When I say VB here, I refer to the .NET version of VB)

>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...
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>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...
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>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!!