I am interested in any comments along the line of whether other VB .NET developers are removing Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace from the default project imports list.

Is it more OOP oriented to do so?

If one wants to be more OOP oriented and disciplined, should one endeavor to find methods of the classes in the framework that are being used rather than use a function or statement from the language?

Is the VB .NET language a namespace in the framework or something to be considered quite separate?

etc, etc.

I've already heard the suggestion to switch to C# thanks...<s>

happy coding everyone,
TIA