I remember while I was chatting about one of the article I was working on for MSDN with some folks from MSFT Corp during lunch at PDC 2005 and I said that most of my code snippets are written in Visual Basic and for once ever, no-one sniggered and laughed. That moment was priceless.

This was because we just came off a fantastic talk on Visual Basic 9: Future Directions in Language Innovations. In fact, someone echoed how cool Visual Basic 9 IS now. I dont know how long was it when "Cool" and "Visual Basic" got along together until today. WOW ! What can I say ? It is standing proud.

There is a piece here that gives a brief overview on Visual Basic 9. What do I love most ? Its built-in deep XML Support. I cannot wait. Give it to me now !!!

It was a great day.