vb.net or C#?

[Dan]

Hi,

i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good reason
why i should switch to (and learning) C#?

Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Re: vb.net or C#?

The main reason is that you'll be able to do jobs in both c# and vb.net.
Your understanding of the framework will already stand you in a good stead
to learn it.

This is old, but useful all the same.

http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/11/87816.aspx

Regards

John Timney (MVP)

http://www.johntimney.com

http://www.johntimney.com/blog

"Dan" <nm@zszsz.xvwro te in message
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Hi,
>
i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>
Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan
>

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: vb.net or C#?

"Dan" <nm@zszsz.xvwro te in message
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I develop webapplications with ASP.NET and VB.NET. Is there any good
reason why I should switch to (and learn) C#?

Technically speaking, no. C# supports unsafe code aka pointers, but that's
about the only difference...

Commercially speaking, learning C# will (in theory anyway) make you twice as
marketable...

Since you work with ASP.NET, you will almost certainly have plenty of
experience with JavaScript, so you will not find the C# syntax too difficult
to grasp..


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP

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[Dan]

Re: vb.net or C#?

Thanks, i start right now with C# ...

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>

>I develop webapplications with ASP.NET and VB.NET. Is there any good
>reason why I should switch to (and learn) C#?

>
Technically speaking, no. C# supports unsafe code aka pointers, but that's
about the only difference...
>
Commercially speaking, learning C# will (in theory anyway) make you twice
as marketable...
>
Since you work with ASP.NET, you will almost certainly have plenty of
experience with JavaScript, so you will not find the C# syntax too
difficult to grasp..
>
>
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[Stan]

Re: vb.net or C#?

On 17 Aug, 21:17, "Dan" <n...@zszsz.xvw rote:

Hi,
>
i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good reason
why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>
Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan

Hi Dan

I started working in VB.NET for web apps but have since changed over
to C#

I prefer it but have never been able to pin down the reason(s). It
might be the use of symbols such as { } for statement blocks rather
than key words like if, end if etc Without the code assistant this
would make a lot of difference, but as it is the VS code editor saves
a lot of typing.

One thing you may find strange at first are the different rules for
assignment compatibility. VB allows strings and numbers to be used
almost interchangeably but C# is more fussy and requires explicit
conversion. Use the Parse() function for strings to numbers and dates.
Also remember that Session[] and DataRow/DataRowView indexes return
objects that require type casting in C#
You will also find that list elements have values that are strings and
unlike VB will cannot be aigned to number variables without
conversion.

Good luck

[Jonathan Wood]

Re: vb.net or C#?

For the most part, they are exactly the same language but with slightly
different syntax. With few exceptions, it comes down to your taste in syntax
and what language potential employers are deciding to use.

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming

http://www.softcircuits.com

"Dan" <nm@zszsz.xvwro te in message
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Hi,
>
i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>
Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan
>

[sloan]

Re: vb.net or C#?

If

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On

is set in vb.net files (or there are project level settings)

Then vb.net works almost like c#.

But there is no way to "turn it off" in C#, which I prefer.



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On 17 Aug, 21:17, "Dan" <n...@zszsz.xvw rote:

>Hi,
>>
>i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
>reason
>why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>>
>Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
>Dan

>
Hi Dan
>
I started working in VB.NET for web apps but have since changed over
to C#
>
I prefer it but have never been able to pin down the reason(s). It
might be the use of symbols such as { } for statement blocks rather
than key words like if, end if etc Without the code assistant this
would make a lot of difference, but as it is the VS code editor saves
a lot of typing.
>
One thing you may find strange at first are the different rules for
assignment compatibility. VB allows strings and numbers to be used
almost interchangeably but C# is more fussy and requires explicit
conversion. Use the Parse() function for strings to numbers and dates.
Also remember that Session[] and DataRow/DataRowView indexes return
objects that require type casting in C#
You will also find that list elements have values that are strings and
unlike VB will cannot be aigned to number variables without
conversion.
>
Good luck

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Re: vb.net or C#?

If you started with VB.NET, probably not. If you started with VB and moved
to VB.NET, you are probably using a lot of training wheels. The easiest way
to tell is whether or not you are using the Microsoft.Visua lBasic
namespaces, esp. .Compatibility. In this case, learning C# makes you more
likely to learn the Framework and get rid of the training wheels.

As far as other reasons. I find there are more C# jobs than VB.NET. If this
is not true in your area, then you need not worry, other than the suggestion
above.

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Hi,
>
i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>
Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan
>

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Re: vb.net or C#?

I would disagree that they are "exactly the same language but with slightly
different syntax". Language wise, there are loads of difference. But, if you
are using the Framework properly, they are fairly identical. One uses [],
the other () and you have to add semi-colons. :-)

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"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcirc uits.comwrote in message
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For the most part, they are exactly the same language but with slightly
different syntax. With few exceptions, it comes down to your taste in
syntax and what language potential employers are deciding to use.
>
--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming

http://www.softcircuits.com

>
>
"Dan" <nm@zszsz.xvwro te in message
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>Hi,
>>
>i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
>reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>>
>Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
>Dan
>>

>

[Scott M.]

Re: vb.net or C#?

One thing you may find strange at first are the different rules for

assignment compatibility. VB allows strings and numbers to be used
almost interchangeably but C# is more fussy and requires explicit
conversion.

The first thing a VB .NET developer should do is turn on Option Strict for
all their projects. Once that is done, VB .NET is a type-safe language,
just as C# is and the situation you described above will not be allowed.

-Scott

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: vb.net or C#?

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[top-posting corrected]

>>I develop webapplications with ASP.NET and VB.NET. Is there any good
>>reason why I should switch to (and learn) C#?

>>
>For the most part, they are exactly the same language but with slightly
>different syntax.

>
I would disagree that they are "exactly the same language but with
slightly different syntax".

So would I.


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP

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[Jonathan Wood]

Re: vb.net or C#?

Cowboy,

>I would disagree that they are "exactly the same language but with slightly
>different syntax". Language wise, there are loads of difference. But, if
>you are using the Framework properly, they are fairly identical. One uses
>[], the other () and you have to add semi-colons. :-)

Heh, well I did say "for the most part." But, really, I find when I'm
reading books that show code samples in both VB.NET and C#, I find almost no
reason to look at the sample that uses the code I happen to be using.
Primarily for the reason you suggested: most of the language consists of
framework calls. Just a different syntax.

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming

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>
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>
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>For the most part, they are exactly the same language but with slightly
>different syntax. With few exceptions, it comes down to your taste in
>syntax and what language potential employers are deciding to use.
>>
>--
>Jonathan Wood
>SoftCircuits Programming
>http://www.softcircuits.com
>>
>>
>"Dan" <nm@zszsz.xvwro te in message
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>>Hi,
>>>
>>i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
>>reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>>>
>>Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
>>Dan
>>>

>>

>

[Riki]

Re: vb.net or C#?

Dan wrote:

Hi,
>
i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>
Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan

In addition to what is already said, I like the "My" namespace a lot in
VB.NET.
It is missing in C#.

--

Riki

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=]

Re: vb.net or C#?

Dan wrote:

Hi,
>
i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good reason
why i should switch to (and learning) C#?
>
Thanks for the pro's and contra's.
Dan
>
>

Regardless if you switch language or not, you will get a better
understanding of programming in general by learning C# too.

C# and VB.NET compile into pretty much the same IL code, so learning how
C# works will also make you understand better what your VB.NET code does.

--
Göran Andersson
_____

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[Marc]

Re: vb.net or C#?


"Dan" <nm@zszsz.xvwro te

i develop webapplications with asp.net and vb.net. Is there any good
reason why i should switch to (and learning) C#?

No. But let me give you my opinion.

For making applications, it should not matter that much, it's not that one
is that much better then the other.

For job opportunities, I think you should do some C#.

Then another thing is, how much trouble would you have writing in another
language? The past two years I've used C++, Delphi, Java, VB.NET, C#,
ASP.NET, JSP and Javascript in different projects. If I work in one language
for two weeks I am used to it. Even though I have more experience in C++ for
example, now I am programming in Delphi, and if I now have to write C++ code
I put 'then' afther my if statements. Just like on holiday, after speaking
Spanish for two weeks, I forget my German en English, while I am Dutch.

Hence the writing EndIf instead of }, that's not really the main problem in
writing ASP.NET programs, that what I think. One could change from VB to C#
in less then a month. Learning the framework possibilities would cost you a
year at least.