Do You Agree with the Visual Expert VB Survey ?

The folks at Visual Expert have posted the results from their 2004 Worldwide VB Survey Results.  To me, the number they report for VB developers who have migrated to VB.NET, rather than continuing with VB6 seems rather low.  What do you think of these numbers ?  Do you have any thoughts/insights regarding any of the other numbers that they are presenting ?
Published Monday, February 14, 2005 7:53 AM by Jackie Goldstein
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Monday, February 14, 2005 5:40 AM by Hannes Preishuber

# re: Do You Agree with the Visual Expert VB Survey ?

i have read this some time ago, and forgotten it. Now i remember it and lucky to have the link back.
Cause my native language is german i have studied the german comments. Most of them are not very objective. Some argumenst counts, eg what i win with vb.net?
On the other side, a paripicant have reasons to attend a survey like this and change with this reasons the result.
I think the status of VB.NET is bad, but not so bad as this says.
I guess that Vb.NEt 2.0 is on the right way and in 2 years nobody starts a new project with VB 6
Monday, February 14, 2005 6:31 AM by IM

# re: Do You Agree with the Visual Expert VB Survey ?

Having read the comments at the end of that survey page, all I can say is a lot of VB programmers seem to be severely lacking in the brain department! :¬o
:-)

I used to program VB6 and enjoy doing so. It's C# nowadays, though.

Monday, February 14, 2005 7:10 AM by Wallym

# re: Do You Agree with the Visual Expert VB Survey ?

I tend to agree with what Visual Expert is saying. Unfortunately, I believe it is fairly clear that the majority of VB developers are still using VB6. This agrees with what I am seeing in the marketplace. :-(

For example, I am just getting one of my customers to do a from the groundup project in VB.NET with ASP.NET. Getting VB.NET into the marketplace is harder than Microsoft thought.

This will change, however, it will take time.

Wally