Over the last month, I have asked a lot of people (including consultants, VB MVPs, in-house developers, students and hobbyists) how they use VB.NET and to tell me the most recent thing they had done with it. I'm still putting all of it together, but I wanted to share some of it now. So, here are some of their answers:

"In the course of 1 week in February I presented on the XML features of VB9 then a couple of days later helped a team put them to use to quickly create a POC for creating Excel documents on the server." - Keith Franklin, General Manager - Magenic

"Developed an online library cataloguing system for a museum in Dublin. Developed a file encryption application in VB.Net. Am developing a funds management application for financial institutions at present" - Jamie Plenderleith, Consultant

"I wrote an XPathViewer utility to answer this person's question: http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?t=166787" - Phil Weber

"The last VB.NET application I wrote was a K-means clustering application with element weighting that allows you to cluster data gathered from a SQL statement against any datasource." - Perry Pinion, Senior Programmer/Analyst - Advance Auto Parts

"I've been working on Game Al routines for an XNA demo I'm doing at Code Camp." - Chris Williams, Technology Evangelist - Magenic

"I wrote a LINQ enabled Personal Web Starter Kit that enables users to view and manage photos which are stored in SQL Server. The database interaction is done in LINQ." - Jim Wooley, VB MVP

"We have a web site where all conference content is maintained. We wrote a tool in VB.NET to extract images from that website and create Conference CD’s from the conference content (speakers, exhibitors, sessions, etc). This file exports all content to XML format that is then rendered on a CD using CSS and JavaScript." - Rod Paddock, Editor - CoDe Magazine 

"I recently was asked how to use a background image on a form, but not cover the image up if you placed a tabcontrol on the form which covered much of the picture. Since there is no built in way to accomplish this, I take the background image, figure out what portion is covered by the tabcontrol, and I crop and draw that portion onto the tabpage. Add some gamma overcorrection, and you get a nice faded/glass effect of the background image." - Matt Kleinwaks, VB MVP

"We're using System.Speech (part of WPF in 3.0) to access the MS speech API. Leveraging this technology, we're able to record inspections of electrical transmission structures (towers and poles to the lay person) using voice... in a helicopter inflight... without training the software to the user's voice. We're also using ESRI GIS products to provide a map with the helicopter's position and identify the structure being inspected in real time... all in VB .NET." - Jeff Certain