Hey,
I believe that everybody has a right to share their opinion, so here is mine, please don't get offended by it. I Myself have Visual Studio 6 & i think it's great:
Visual Basic is a VERY bad language, and here is why: why would you use something like VB when you can use something like C/C++ that works on multiple operating systems. And VB is owned by Mircrosoft Corporation, so you couldn't just go pick up a free version of VB (maybe you can, but i don't know where.....) And it alos requires a run time library, WHAT A HASSLE to people.
Why use Visual Basic when it can be done better in C++ or C, or Pascal. As for C#, C Sharp is pthetic. Just because Microsoft got sued by Sun for making changes to their Java VM doesn't mean they have to make a brand new Language, And what kind of friggin name is C Sharp anyways??? The could've valled it 'D' since it is a decender of 'C' and 'C++', or they could've called it 'X' loL!, ok that was surposed to be funny ;D
Ciao