With the first version of VB.Net and Winforms, you could more or less pretend that you were working in VB6; it was akin to the difference between C++ and C (wit

With the first version of VB.Net and Winforms, you could more or less pretend that you were working in VB6; it was akin to the difference between C++ and C (with all the goodness and badness suggested by the analogy). VBA is still supported in Office. People are still making ridiculous amounts of money writing Silveight apps, and to the degree that MS abandonded it, that was because of “mobile”.