VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

And C# programmers are as happy as a kid with the newest toy on the block, mostly because they have the newest toy on the block. This is how things stand these days, midway through the "Everett" age. ...

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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 ...

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I have been hacking code since a long time ago and learned VB.net in school. In my daily work I use C# and have therefore not looked at VB since.<BR><BR>However, I'm interviewing for a company now ...

Get rid of VB. Entirely (even that knock off VBA that still hangs on in Office products). If you can't learn C# (you don't have to know all the advanced features) then uh maybe programming isn't for ...