Today I've see that the results of the 2004 Visual Basic Worldwide Survey are graphically published on the net (thanks Dino for the segnalation).
Interesting signals comes out from this survey... the first thing to note is that the past is not forgotten but is really present, so VB6 is also at the moment the most used language in the VB's family.
Too many applications was built with VB6 and a migration is not always a step that companies want to do (or not to do in a short period):
The main benefit for a migration on the .NET world seems to come directly from the Framework's advantages that you can have (managed code, CLR etc), but also a significant step on migration could be the new way to create web applications such as WebServices or ASP.NET applications:
| but the actual most frequent type of project developed by using VB is a Windows application, maybe because VB was born for them:
Last (but not least)... VB developers love their tools and hope for VB (and VB.NET) a great future:
However, by viewing these graphs I can say a final consideration: the past is alive and we've to give lots of importance to the word interoperability.