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What are the differences between C# and VB.NET apart from syntax?which is more powerful,how do we determine which language to be used when designing a .NET app?

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Last Update: March 14, 2007 Asked by: prabhasana

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Submitted by: Abhishek Agrawal

C# is designed as a purely object oriented language from the scratch

while VB.net was designed to port the existing VB programmers to dot net framework as VB.net is having the same feel as VB

there are many features in C# which are not available in VB.net like

1)Delegates which are equivalent to function pointers in VC++

2)pointers (using unmanaged code)

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January 10, 2006 04:00:05

Ritesh Diyawar

RE: What are the differences between C# and VB.NET apa...

1 C# Case censetive but vb.net not2 c# conversion done Explictly but vb.net implictly3 Must have break statement in Default section but not in vb.net

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February 15, 2006 04:32:45

Abhishek Agrawal

RE: What are the differences between C# and VB.NET apa...

C# is designed as a purely object oriented language from the scratch

while VB.net was designed to port the existing VB programmers to dot net framework as VB.net is having the same feel as VB

there are many features in C# which are not available in VB.net like

1)Delegates which are equivalent to function pointers in VC++

2)pointers (using unmanaged code)

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August 15, 2006 14:01:29

Frost

RE: What are the differences between C# and VB.NET apa...

ok VB.NET has Delegates? I am losted as to the differances I have used both languages and I really cannot find any advantage (other then syntax) one has over the other?

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March 14, 2007 04:50:08

ti_abhi

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RE: What are the differences between C# and VB.NET apa...

VB.NET does have delegates. Pointers cant be said to be an advantage Even Java claiming to a pure Object Oriented Language stays away from pointers. Its just for backward compatibility and letting users do what they used to with c/c++.

Unmanaged code is never recommended and therefore should not be treated as an advantage.

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