Correct - but Delphi was available in the VB3-4 timeframe, years ahead of .NET. When .NET was in beta, I managed to participate through a Microsoft friend - an

Correct - but Delphi was available in the VB3-4 timeframe, years ahead of .NET. When .NET was in beta, I managed to participate through a Microsoft friend - and, saw that the writing-was-on-the-wall... I dropped my tentative exploration of Java (I had even become a Sun partner) and focussed all my efforts on C#, I could see that was the way forward (especially considering it was up for ECMA/ISO certification as well) and basically never touched VB.NET or VB again. (Outside of some VBA within Excel/Word/etc)