Lou Vega, leader of the Charleston, SC .NET User's Group, asked me if he could be the VB .NET Editor for 30 Days of .NET. Again my goal is to make this as much of an open forum as possible. Since its hard to do that with one person, and Lou totally rocks, I said of course, thank you!

Basically Lou is going to take up the task of converting each of the applications to VB .NET. This is a huge boon for the community. If you are a VB .NET programmer and you want to do Windows Mobile development you will quickly discover that only something like 1 in 10 examples are done in VB .NET, if that many. And outside of Microsoft almost all content is done in C#.

I understand the decision Microsoft made. Basically most Windows Mobile developers, at least in the early days, had a background in C++ and usually Win32 programming. Microsoft wanted to cater to these developers, and win them over for the success of the platform. Also, with a new platform guidance is very important. If there was a budget for 10 tutorials that year, then if they were split between C# and VB .NET, there would only be about half as many such examples.

The choice was made to make more examples that could help beginner developers all the way to advance developers, versus having to cut out a lot of material. And trust me in the early days you needed as much help as possible because if you were doing any out of the norm it could be just a little rough. Today things are so much better, if you want to do something it is usually simple and direct.

So with that out of the way let me officially welcome Lou Vega into his new position, and offer him my sincerest thanks. Great idea Lou!