>Pardom me, I know this is off topic and sounds like I'm complaining, but believe me, I'm not, really! I think the complain time has gone and has no place any more, what had to be said about that already was, now the evaluate time has come, IMO.

I'm concentrating on VC++ more. Not because it's better (than say, Delphi, which it's not), but I'm seeing what a hugh amount of C/C++ code is out there on the Web, for ALL platforms, most of it free. This includes entire applications of every type. You can find VB and Delphi code, but it is small relative to C/C++.

That's another reason why I think .NET is going "nowhere", at least in my lifetime.

The knowledge base (in all forms) for C/C++ is so hugh compared to C#/VB.NET, I think that any company that attempts to develop a new product in C# would be at a tremendous disadvantage relative to one using C/C++.

The developer in C/C++ has a hugh existing code base that they can draw on to support their efforts; not everything has to be written from scratch.

C#/VB.NET won't buy them anything more than what C/C++ now provides. The only people who seem to be chasing it are "book writers". Why bother.