I've just completed the Murach book on VB.NET and VB.NET ADO and there is a statement that "VB.NET isn't fully "object oriented" - but makes no specific arguement.<BR><BR>Now I'm going thru the Murach ...

It's not good enough to simply write code that works. That code must be easily maintained, enhanced and debugged when problems happen. One of the reasons why object-oriented programming is so popular ...