>The bottom line, both have a place and to imply a per se rule that folks should adopt a specific language is nonsense...

Besides the developer who doesn't want use a language with semicolons, braces, and case-senstiveity (which is perfectly cool, thats the developers choice and the reason why there are multiple .NET langauges) what specific situation, or "place", would you not want to use C#? IOW, what is VB's place?