[baseball_fan]

"Technology is rapidly moving forward and if you cannot adapt then you don't belong in the field."

Tell that to the folks referenced in post #3

[Ex-Dem]

Sounds like they want to halt progress so they won't be forced to hit the books and learn something new. Sorry, but you don't go into IT and expect things to stay still.

[pamlet]

Ok ... I was curious - my husband wasn't sure what an "Microsoft MVP" was .. nor was I .. so I researched it..

From Microsoft's Website:

About the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award Program Microsoft started the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award Program in the early 1990s as a way to recognize those members of the general public who devoted their time and considerable computing skills to helping users in the various newsgroups hosted by Microsoft. Since that time, the Microsoft MVP Award Program has grown and awards are now given to the most outstanding members of Microsoft technical communities for their exceptional contributions to hundreds of online and offline technical communities, including Microsoft public newsgroups, third-party Web sites that include Web boards and Web logs (or blogs), and user groups -- all popular forums for communicating with peers about Microsoft products, technologies and services.

Hmmm maybe if they spent less time hanging out on the boards and learning .net it wouldn't be so tough for them...

[econjack]

Aww, c'on, guys...I'm two years younger than dirt and programmed with Visual Basic since it came out back in the early '90's, yet I've been adapting to language changes since the late '60's. I've written books on Visual Basic, including .NET and just finished my 14th book on C#, another .NET language and it really is time to let VB6.0 die a graceful death. Further, programmer age has little to do with this issue...it's interest and desire that makes me stay up with the power curve. If anything, I think "the language race" helps keep me young!