I have been a VB guy since VB3.0. IMHO it is the most productive language available. I flunk out of typing school so typing is not for me. VB has over the years made coding so easy without scarifying performance. When .Net was released it was tough to not have some of the productivity features we were used to for years like “Edit and Continue” etc. Most of that is now back again in VS 2005 and I am very happy. If you are still using VB6 now is the time to switch to .Net.
I was also never big on the web applications. It sure has a rightful place in our world. I have done some web stuff and really like what is available in VS 2005 and ASP.Net 2.0. I am also very excited about ATLAS. It gives us a lot of features (based on the AJAX platform) that we used to either live without or had to code lines and lines of JavaScript to accomplish. It is still in Beta but it is slick.
Recently I took a new job and my first few projects are C# and all are on ASP 2.0. So as you can imagine I now have to do the wild thing and read documentation again. My head hurts. I only have three brain cells left and they are all preserve in some malted beverage for use (or abuse) by the next generation. I have a hard time every morning to get the three of them going.
I am getting awfully familiar with C# now and although I do not mind using it I must say that I still prefer VB over C#. It is just way more productive of a language and once it becomes IL it is all the same in any case.