But it still says nothing about Microsoft's current and continued support of VB in .NET, which is the title of the thread.

Now, let's get back to my original question regarding the quote in the first post in this thread. "C# also is slated by Microsoft to become the primary development language for Windows Phone 7." (from the link below). That article was originally posted in June, 2010. At THAT TIME, C# was the only supported language for WP7. Since then, that has changed.

When quoting articles and making assumptions, one must keep timing in mind and determine if things had changed since then.


>I was slightly wrong because the one Hank referenced is the same info, by the same author, just a different format. But the original one does make it clear that it is Classic VB (COM Version) just like the one it references in Tiobe. I'll let our readers be the judge:
>"Visual Basic
>Like the BASIC programming language, Visual Basic was designed to be easily learned and used by beginner programmers. The language not only allows programmers to create simple GUI applications, but it can also be used to develop complex applications. Programming in VB is a combination of visually arranging components or controls on a form specifying attributes and actions of those components, and writing additional lines of code for more functionality. With ease of use as a selling point, Visual Basic caught on like wildfire. There is simply too much VB code out there to ignore this language in any list of 10 programming languages. Visual Basic ranked No. 5 on the most-recent TIOBE Index."
>**Note he says this is the same VB referenced as #5 on Tiobe which IS CLEARLY CLASSIC VB.
>
>This is from http://www.devsource.com/c/a/Languages/Ten-Programming-Languages-for-2011/ for those too lazy to check the source of the original link I gave.