dear all
i'm willing to learn C# from the begining onwords and i don't have any prior knowledge about C#. But i'm quite comfortable with VB.net2003. followings are
my questions.

(1) what is mostly used programing language in the industry C# or C#.net'
(2) what are the references which should be followed as a new comer (books, e-books, web sites)

please help me to get started with C#

thanks in advance.