One of the places lacking good VB support was the Microsoft Patterns & Practices’ Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named "Prism"). The P&P team is now releasing VB versions of the QuickStarts, Hands-On Labs, and How-to Topics!
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This download is provided to help Visual Basic .NET developers use the Composite Application Library. While Prism is not yet 100% VB, this is a big step in the right direction. The VB code was reviewed by VB Language PM Jonathan Aneja as well as VB Doc Writer Doug Rothaus, so you can be sure this won't be the usual "C# run through a code converter" translation.
Great work by the team!