> As best I can tell, enterprise folks are almost totally VB.  
> Sure there is
> the occasional outlier, but for the most part I think 
> enterprises see they
> can take any monkey off the street and turn him into a VB 
> programmer, and
> that seems to be the driver.
> 
> But from what I've seen so far, VS2005, especially with C#, 
> has a pretty
> compelling story to tell.  If M$ can get that story out, and 
> I see no reason
> to suspect they can't, then C# is going to be a hard train to 
> stop.  Now, I
> might just be saying that because I don't like VB.  They have 
> made some
> pretty amazing improvements to VB development, too.


That train has already left the station here. I work (day job, pic's are
my hobby) for Monster.com. We're an all-microsoft platform, and most of
our codebase is VB/COM, with a light dusting of C++ for some things.

But everything is being written in C# now. A lot of the ancillary parts
of the site are C# already, and by the end of 2005 there should be
almost no VB stuff left.

Jon

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