 <ul> <li><p>At the Microsoft 2009 Mix Web developer conference, all the presentations that I attended included code examples in C#, not VB.</p></li> <li><p>In StackOverflow, notice how questions tagged c# largely outnumber vb.net and vb.</p></li> <li><p>John Skeet wrote <em><a href="http://csharpindepth.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C# in Depth</a></em>, not <em>VB in Depth</em>.</p></li> </ul>