There has been discussion within the StyleCop project at of extending it to check VB.NET as well as C#.
If you are VB.NET developer who is aware of the benefits of using StyleCop then I suggest you respond positively to the thread at
If you have suggestions as to a coding standard for VB.NET to implement, then please post a link to it on that thread. I would however suggest that you confine your suggestions to standards that have been updated in the light of VB2010.
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