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Absolutely. Saying this as someone who codes 100% in VB supporting applications that are 25+ years old.

Honestly, I couldn't be happier with the language strategy as I was wholly expecting VB to be discontinued.

.NET itself is about 20 years old. How are you supporting VB apps that are 25+?

They probably migrated some VB6 apps to VB.NET.

I don't see the contradiction. Visual Basic existed before .NET did.

Visual Basic is more than 40 years old. The .Net version of the language was released somewhere around 2002, if I recall correctly.

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