microsoft plans to end support for vb 6

according to news.com, microsoft plans to end support for vb 6 at the end of this month. well, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone following the microsoft development platform. vb 6 has been a dying language since the advent of vb.net. it's no secret that microsoft has wanted vb developers to switch to vb.net for quite some time. as a matter of fact, microsoft would like c++ developers to switch to c# as well. i think that microsoft became frustrated with the slower than anticipated adoption rate of vb.net, thus decided to "help it along" ;). i happen to share the view that vb.net and c# are far more elegant and less error prone languages than vb 6 and c++ for desktop and web applications. now, i feel much better about beginning to learn c# in 2001.