Mike,

A lot of the enhancements VB has recieved has been to play catchup ie. unsigned types, operator overloading and XML documentation. C# is getting a lot of new features in version 2 iterators, partial classes, and anonymous methods being some of these. Also VB.NET emits calls to its helper DLL to implement a number of language specific features that are not supported by the CLR.

My point is that C# and VB.NET are first class citizens in the dotnet world and I would expect to see differences in both language and IDE features. However, would Microsoft be stupid enough to say to C/C++ and Java developers that all those years invested in their languages of choice are for nothing - go use VB? I don't think so, look at what the MSFT VB devs are saying about generics, implemented in both VB and C# but they expect there to be initially more interest from the VB community in IDE enhancements?