From consulting experience, I can tell you that VB.Net is still HUGE amongst smaller companies. They often started with some custom application years ago that h

From consulting experience, I can tell you that VB.Net is still HUGE amongst smaller companies. They often started with some custom application years ago that had an upgrade path of Excel > Access > VB 5 or 6, and ultimately landed on VB.Net. It's easy to forget that there are a ton of applications out there that have been homegrown by the "office computer guy"; which is to say a developer that has never had any real training and fell into a developer position by necessity more than anything else. My assumption is that for the shade tree developer, a book with "Visual Basic dot anything" on the cover is going to be more "friendly" seeming than any other language, especially one that uses glyphs right in the name (C#).