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.Now I'm going thru the Murach ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.