John,

Ok - here's the new thread per your request

Re - my reasons for C# over VB .NET

1 - C# is cleaner - doesn't carry the legacy baggage that VB does - in fact some of the same things that make VB "more like VFP" encumber it.
2 - My information is that C# runs about 10% faster in general (will actually ciomplile to MSIL more efficiently)
3 - .NET Framework is C#
4 - since C# is very much like JAVA - we're learning two languages at once and will be prepared if the world turns upside down and the misguided open source freedom fighters take over the planet.
5 - And finally, if VB were the last language on earth, I'd give up software dev. and open a hot dog stand :-)

I believe that 90% of the battle of .NET is the framework/classes/ado/etc - things that are largely langauge independant. Ultimately, we could have compnenets written in either and I wouldn't care - but I'll do my framework in C# fro the reasons above.

Thanks,