Faced with that choice a few years ago, I looked at both and chose C# simply because some .NET developers whose judgement I respected told me that the languages were equally powerful, but the C# rates were higher and that there was more demand for C#.

That made the decision easy!

That selfish motive aside-
I think I made the right call for this practical reason:
i have no statistical data to support this, but it seems to me that when I search for answers to a .NET problem, more solutions use C# than VB and that's a huge benefit when I'm struggling with a problem.

Here's an interesting side benefit that popped up recently- when you learn C#, you're learning a variant of C.
At least to this aging VFP developer, the C syntax was really wierd at first and it took quite a bit of effort to master.
Recently I needed to learn Javascript, another variant of C whose syntax is almost identical to C#'s, and I was pleased to see that my C# knowledge made it a lot easier than it would have been without it.



>>We are considering adopting .Net as a development environment and we were wondering whether we should go CSharp or VBNet.

We are "leaving" VFP and have extensively used vba in access and excel. We did do some java, c, but not as extensively, so "naturally" we would go VB.Net.

Having done some vbnet, I get the feeling that .net is rather focused on CSharp, and "also" supports VBNet. Is that just an impression?

Are there other criteria of choice that affect this decision?

Thanks for any consideration you might want to share with us.