At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ...

The VB and C# languages have a lot in common, and developers who specialize in one often find themselves having to write or manipulate code written in the other. Our discussion also covered the need ...

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This morning I was having a talk with our lead web dev about the merits of C# over VB. And yeah, I know it sounds like one of those tired old conversations that never goes anywhere, but this actually ...

I work in C# now after many years in C/C++. Although I like some of the lamba syntax sugar, it's basically an unpleasant language -- most of the hassle of C++, little of the benefit of higher level ...