I agree that DNNCreative is a great site. I'm already a member and, when learning about skinning in DNN in few weeks ago, I found it to be the most useful source of training material. There's a lot of material on the site and it's good value, in my opinion.

I've not been there recently since I find it thin on module development which I'm now learning about. I think the Washington site mentioned previously is the best tutorial on module development I've found so far and is much easier to follow than the outdated Wrox book. Choosing to cover the Events module in the Wrox book was probably misguided IMHO as its rather complex compared to the Survey module covered by Michael Washington.

The DNNCreative site - good though it is - is also somewhat out of date, it has to be said. I had some problems with their tutorial on the SolPart menu when trying to get the Nav menu to work in 4.8.2, since this is not covered. I eventually succeeded, but only but persevering with this myself (there is a posting on DNNCreative with my findings). I gather that Lee Sykes is considering covering the Nav menu in a tutorial at some point in the future.

I can't agree with your comments on VB versus C#, I'm afraid, but there's no point in dragging up those tired old arguments here again. We each have our preferences (and our prejudices I'm afraid), and its probably best to leave it at that. One good thing about working in .NET is that at least we have more choice over which language to use.