I see this as far more of a .Net issue than a VB6 issue. The bar to entry is far lower via the Express and now Community Editions for one thing (free vs. paid-for tools), and more people attempt this now than in the heyday of VB6.

I'm amazed we see as much VB6 "traffic" in help forums as we do for those reasons. I can only chalk that up to people who got comfortable in Office VBA and persisted until they somehow got their hands on VB6, and more and more often probably the pirated "Portable Edition" floating around warez sites.

But the proof of my premise is in the forums: VB.Net and C# forums seems to contain just as much Mortitude as anywhere else. You only see a higher proportion in web scripting forums.