Last Monday, we had 2 guys from the Microsoft Visual Basic product team in Belgium for the MSDN Event: "Visual Basic On Tour". During 5 presentations Todd Apley and Paul Yuknewicz gave an overview of the new features in Visual Basic 2005. OK, one presentation was also given by Alexander Holy, developer evangelist at Microsoft EMEA.
In my previous life, I've did quite some Visual Basic development and I'm still proud of that. I'm also still convinced that Visual Basic is the perfect language for doing rapid application development. Combine the easy-of-use of Visual Basic with the advanced capabilities of the .NET Framework and you've got a application development tool on steriods. But before starting a religious language war, let me just say once more that - given my VB background - I was very happy to welcome the guys that actually worked on Visual Basic in Belgium.
Here are some links that may be of interest to Visual Basic developers:
Here are some pictures of the event: