Visual Basic (the latest version of which is VB6) and Visual Basic .NET are not the same language. VB.NET is a C# skin. VB6 was an excellent productive environ

Visual Basic (the latest version of which is VB6) and Visual Basic .NET are not the same language. VB.NET is a C# skin. VB6 was an excellent productive environment, whose problems were the Basic language and its warts, and the community of which a significant percentage were clueless. People who hate VB.NET hate it because it's basically a needlessly verbose skin of C#. People who hate VB6 hate it because they hated it 10 years ago when it was still dying (and they don't even remember why). The bottom line is that today no one actually likes either VB environment.