After 7 years of "playing around" with VB.NET I have finally been given the go ahead to develop my next project in work in VB.NET.
We have still to iron out the details but in principal it has been agreed and we can purchase Visual Studio 2005. At some stage in the next few months we will also be looking to upgrade our servers from SQL Server 2000 to 2005.
So a lot of work to be done in the next few weeks as I need to refresh my knowledge as its been almost a couple of years since I used VB.NET on a regular basis and I have never used VB.NET 2005 except playing around with VB.NET 2005 Express over the last week or so.