New in VB9

I'm trying to do more blogging as part of my personal learning process, so courtesy of my investigation of changes in .NET 3.5 and VS2008, here are some great places to find information for VB.NET:

• Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 from the VB Team themselves
• Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus a series of posts from Bart De Smet's B# blog
• Syntactic Sugar, Compiler Candy, and Other Sweets from James Kovac (C# biased, but applicable for VB9 too)

Also, InfoQ has a small editorial piece, Selecting a .NET Web Framework which raises the question of whether having ASP.NET MVC around will make it tempting to give up WebForms and hence our ASP.NET server control libraries? Personally, I think the control vendors will see this as an opportunity to expand their product lines. I think we will see ASP.NET MVC being used more for Web 2.0/externally facing applications and WebForms still being the dominant framework for intranet development, or web-enabled line of business apps.