Difference between C# and VB.NET

[Raj Dhrolia]

Hi Guys,

It might seem to be a very easy question, but i am very much eager to
know some good technical difference between C# and VB.NET.

Are there anything that i can do in one language and cannot in other?
And finally why C# seems to be a sort of standard in industry?

Regards,
Raj Dhrolia.

[Cor]

Hi Raj,

It might seem to be a very easy question, but i am very much eager to
know some good technical difference between C# and VB.NET.
There is no technical difference only a language difference and some small
differences
- With C# there is a better posibility to make program documentation
- VB.net has a larger instruction set.
Are there anything that i can do in one language and cannot in other?
Yes because it is a different language, but you can make with both the same
things.
And finally why C# seems to be a sort of standard in industry?

C# and VB.net needs both the Net framework that only runs completly on W98+,
NT4 sp6+ and newer Window OS systems. There are activities with Mono on
Linux for both C# and VB.net

Here some links to see the differences between C# and VB.net

Code C# and VB
http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/...omparison.html

Language compare
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...quivalents.asp

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

[Jan Tielens]

Cor,

First of all: Merry Christmas! :-)

- With C# there is a better posibility to make program documentation In VB.NET you can also create very easily great looking documentation with
the VB Commenter power toy
(http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide/he...ommenter.aspx).

--
Greetz,
Jan
_______________ _______________ ____
Read my weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan
"Cor" <no*@non.com> schreef in bericht
news:Od******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... Hi Raj,

It might seem to be a very easy question, but i am very much eager to
know some good technical difference between C# and VB.NET.
There is no technical difference only a language difference and some small
differences
- With C# there is a better posibility to make program documentation
- VB.net has a larger instruction set.

Are there anything that i can do in one language and cannot in

other?
Yes because it is a different language, but you can make with both the same things.

And finally why C# seems to be a sort of standard in industry?
C# and VB.net needs both the Net framework that only runs completly on

W98+, NT4 sp6+ and newer Window OS systems. There are activities with Mono on
Linux for both C# and VB.net

Here some links to see the differences between C# and VB.net

Code C# and VB
http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/...omparison.html

Language compare
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...quivalents.asp
I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

[phoenix]

"Cor" <no*@non.com> schreef in bericht
news:Od******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

Hi Raj,

It might seem to be a very easy question, but i am very much eager to
know some good technical difference between C# and VB.NET.
There is no technical difference only a language difference and some small
differences
- With C# there is a better posibility to make program documentation
- VB.net has a larger instruction set.

What about unsafe code in C# and VB.Net also doesn't support operator
overloading though they are planning on adding it
(http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/cambecc/p...50-4237-a751-1
27195cceeab).

Are there anything that i can do in one language and cannot in

other?
Yes because it is a different language, but you can make with both the same things.

And finally why C# seems to be a sort of standard in industry?
C# and VB.net needs both the Net framework that only runs completly on

W98+, NT4 sp6+ and newer Window OS systems. There are activities with Mono on
Linux for both C# and VB.net

Here some links to see the differences between C# and VB.net

Code C# and VB
http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/...omparison.html

Language compare
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...quivalents.asp
I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

Yves

[Cor]

Hi Jan,

First of all: Merry Christmas! :-)

The same for me to you.

Cor

[Jan Tielens]

Sure, Operator Overloading is not yet available in VB.NET, but will be
available in the next version. And you can't write unsafe code in VB.NET
(but who would want to do that anyway ;-). But there are some things VB.NET
has and C# doesn't: background compilation, more intelligent intellisense,
.... So yes: there are some things that can be done in C# and not in VB.NET,
and visa versa. But all the "important stuff" (like OO) can be done in both
languages.

--
Greetz,
Jan
_______________ _______________ ____
Read my weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan
"phoenix" <pa******@skyne tWORK.be> schreef in bericht
news:u6******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

"Cor" <no*@non.com> schreef in bericht
news:Od******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

Hi Raj,

It might seem to be a very easy question, but i am very much eager to
know some good technical difference between C# and VB.NET.
There is no technical difference only a language difference and some small

differences
- With C# there is a better posibility to make program documentation
- VB.net has a larger instruction set.

What about unsafe code in C# and VB.Net also doesn't support operator
overloading though they are planning on adding it

(http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/cambecc/p...50-4237-a751-1 27195cceeab).
Are there anything that i can do in one language and cannot in other?

Yes because it is a different language, but you can make with both the

same

things.

And finally why C# seems to be a sort of standard in industry?

C# and VB.net needs both the Net framework that only runs completly on

W98+,

NT4 sp6+ and newer Window OS systems. There are activities with Mono on
Linux for both C# and VB.net

Here some links to see the differences between C# and VB.net

Code C# and VB
http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/...omparison.html

Language compare

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...quivalents.asp
I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

Yves

[Cor]

Hi Phoenix,

Before there become misunderstandin gs, the code made with VB.net and C# is
the same.
(If you have in VB.net option strict on).

For unmanaged code you can use C++ but that is something else than C#

Cor

[phoenix]

"Cor" <no*@non.com> schreef in bericht
news:Oe******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P09.phx.gbl...

Hi Phoenix,

Before there become misunderstandin gs, the code made with VB.net and C# is
the same.
(If you have in VB.net option strict on).

For unmanaged code you can use C++ but that is something else than C#

Cor

I'm talking about unsafe code, not unmanaged code.

It's not often used but a while back I needed to write some image
manipulation functions and without unsafe code they would take 10 times the
time to do the same job. With unsafe code however they get pretty close to
'old-fashioned' C/C++ code in execution time.

Yves

[Cor]

Hi Phoenix,

Misunderstandin g from me, thank you for making it clear.

Cor

[BGD]

I learned VB.NET but quickly moved to C# as most of the online samples,
code snippets, source code for books, etc. seems to be in C#. I am
programming mainly for smart devices using the compact framework and have
noticed that C# programs load faster and the exe sizes are smaller. It was
also fun learning C#.
I have been using VB since the first beta more than 12 years ago and it
was getting a little boring. The one nice thing about coding in VB using
Visual Studio is the code editor. That is about the only thing that I miss
from VB though...

"Raj Dhrolia" <ra********@hot mail.com> wrote in message
news:e2******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...

Hi Guys,

It might seem to be a very easy question, but i am very much eager to
know some good technical difference between C# and VB.NET.

Are there anything that i can do in one language and cannot in other?
And finally why C# seems to be a sort of standard in industry?

Regards,
Raj Dhrolia.