Randy

Yes... The silence from MS is deafening. Instead of trying to quietly deprecate VB.Net, MS should have a major marketing and educating campaign to inform; new programmers, current programmers, schools,...

I'm not sure Anthony even works for Microsoft anymore.

First of all, I'm wondering why anyone would overload a method where the only difference was ByVal vs By Ref... I guess the obvious answer would be so that SOMETIMES...

@KathleenDollard While I understand you don't want to talk about the "process" that got MS to this decision, I think MS owes it to the VB.Net community (programmers, businesses, and...

@ zspitz > > > @WolvenRA > > Are there any Visual Basic -like alternatives for .NET? I think all that would happen is these business would move to C#....

@rskar-git Thanx. That was well said and good information. My first choice would be for MS to continue keeping VB **_equal_** to C# and accepting input and enhancements from the...

If I understand correctly, VB is not simply C# with different syntax. HOW the two languages accomplish something is not identical. Which is good! There is far more than simple...

> > _I don't think that means what you think it means_ > > (Sorry for the Princess Bride reference and in this case) What is Visual Basic? What I...

@zspitz Hey! BIG THANKS for posting the link to Anthony's blog post. I would STRONGLY encourage everyone to read that post. It is quite enlightening and gave me hope that...

@zspitz I think we're saying the same thing. I'm talking about getting a "united community" to push MS to separate\create the VB team into its own autonomous group... like the...