My two cents: the web. It's not that VB died, it's that we stopped targeting the desktop for intranet line of business apps. It all went to the web. Deployment

My two cents: the web. It's not that VB died, it's that we stopped targeting the desktop for intranet line of business apps. It all went to the web. Deployment and support of web apps is an order of magnitude easier than thick clients, maybe two orders of magnitude easier. As an industry we never looked back.