It'll just eventually be morphed into C# with different syntactic sugar. The languages are so much alike that [link|http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/|SharpDevelop], the open source equivalent to visual studio, claims to be able to translate [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharpDevelop|VB to C#] and vice versa. As for the next big thing in the .Net world, no doubt it will be [link|http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/|LINQ]. Though, I'm not sure how well that will play with the business object frameworks like Neo.