They are functionally equivalent, with the exception of a couple of things like XML Literals. But it isn't just your perception. The VB community is saying the same thing and I know of several long time VB devs that have moved to C#. Go watch some of the videos from the Build conference. You'll see that VB often mentioned, but rarely used in the presentations.

>We are considering adopting .Net as a development environment and we were wondering whether we should go CSharp or VBNet.
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>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.
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>Having done some vbnet, I get the feeling that .net is rather focused on CSharp, and "also" supports VBNet. Is that just an impression?
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>Are there other criteria of choice that affect this decision?
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>Thanks for any consideration you might want to share with us.