Interesting comments from Rocky Lhotka when musing about the sales of the C# and VB versions of his latest CSLA book.
What I find most interesting is that the VB sales are comparable to the C# sales. Obviously there really is a market for higher end VB programming books, which I think validates a view I've held for a long time, that the VB community was waiting for .NET to mature before moving forward. Clearly VS 2005 is triggering a non-trivial movement of VB developers into .NET, and these are hard-core professional developers who are looking for something beyond the reference-style and tutorial style books out there.
I'm always curious about what encourages or discourages VB6 developers from moving to .NET. I'm not talking about porting apps but porting skills.