>>I have been hearing mid 2001 for VS.NET release, but saw this in a DevX newsletter: "With the second beta of Visual Studio.NET due around mid-year and
>>production releases of VS.NET and the .NET Framework expected by
>>year's end, it's critical to start learning about these new tools now."
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>My guess is that Beta 2 will be announced at TechEd, middle of June and I'll be there :-)

The question is which tool to learn? C# has the richness of VB.net and all the power of C++. Is there a solid argument for learning one over another?