There is a fantastic 2010 blogpost[1] from the Visual Studio Languages Product Manager that explains the rationale for supporting VB.NET as well as C#, as well

There is a fantastic 2010 blogpost[1] from the Visual Studio Languages Product Manager that explains the rationale for supporting VB.NET as well as C#, as well as the strategy for doing so. Of interest: he states that both languages have (had?) "roughly equal adoption". [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottwil/archive/2010/03/09/vb-and-c-coevolution.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottwil/archive/2010/03/09/vb-and-c...