So MS isn't driving the market or the reduction in popularity of VB.NET - it's just people voting with their feet.
But you think MS should support it indefinitely regardless......?
IAC the real improvements in .NET are through additions to the framework. The need for further changes in the core VB.NET (or C#) languages are comparatively trivial....

>Well MS moves with the market and perception and it has clearly been shown VB.NET is falling way behind : TiOBE, jobs, recommended languages - again clearly shown. So if you disagree with that then you are just not looking at reality..
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>>OK. But everything Microsoft is currently doing doesn't support that.
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>>I never said dropped - I said slowly phased out like the fox was with same the same result of less resources, developers, write-ups etc. all gradually of course, just like vfp..