What is the difference (advantages) between VB.NET and C#?

[RedLion]

Hello,

Probably you would say by reading this thread not again…
But I’ve looked everywhere on MSDN and so on but the only thing I can find is that .Net is so great and a lot of advantages against VB, but nothing about the differences between C# and VB.NET

Question:
What is the difference (advantages) between VB.NET and C#?

A few points:
1. Is there a difference in handling strings?
2. Is one of the languages higher than the other?

And more...

Thanks for your time,

Charl

 

[jfrost10]

Oh geez, NOT AGAIN!


just kidding Red. I just came back from a VS.NET launch event, and the feeling I came away with was that other than syntax, there is virtually no difference between teh two languages (for the most part). I'm sure there are a few minor differences, and the bulk of developers are deffinately adopting C# over vb.net. But from what I gathered, they're pretty close.

Just what i know though.


Jack

 

[ja2000]

every languages in .NET have their own advantages and disadvantages ... eventhough i was using c#, but i was pretty sure that there're almost no differences between vb.net and c#. ask jack what vb.net could do ^-^. well, coz now all the languages stand over the same framework, it means that they share the same libraries ... so, what are you afraid of??? it's only a matter of syntax ^-^

 

[RedLion]

Thanks for the Response!

Reasons why I doubt:

1. When you compare C++ with VFP or VB you'll see that VFP and VB are higher languages then C++ for example VFP and VB handle strings more flexible.

2. I’m currently developing a lot with Visual FoxPro and I’ve developed some apps with Java.

3. A college from me is started with developing in VB.NET.

 

[jfrost10]

I've found a few new quirks between VB.NET and C#. Nothing super major, but differences nonetheless:

- Property statements in vb.net classes can take a parameter
C# property statements can't
- C# has a built in class generator wizard (sweet!), vb
does not
- the #Region syntax to create expandable/colapseable
areas in code is only available in vb.net
- C# allows for the <summary> tags, which you can output
to an xml document if you ever want a compiled file with
all your code comments in
- C# has an extra type called Pointer Type (as well as
reference type and value type, which vb.net also has)
- vb.net uses Nothing (IsNothing) while C# uses Null(==null)
- C# has wizards for just about every part of class creation
VB.NET doesn't.

Like i said, nothing super major, but a few things to think about.

Jack

 

[habibcs]

hi,
tell differences wrt performance!

(hint)
[managed/unmaneged blocks in cpp n c#]

 

[crystalized]

Jack,

Not to be a picky so and so but you can use regions in c# I just looked over a co-workers shoulder and saw they were using them. Did you maybe mean the reverse that it is not available in vb.net (I don't know as I have not used vb.net).

habibcs - I have also seen several posts indicating that VB has more built in string functions than I have seen in C#. But usually I have seen someone suggest just using a vb dll to get access to those functions (sorry I can not remember the dll name).

Yes you can use unmanaged code sections within C# code. Issues with doing so include having to be much more careful with cleanup etc, but I guess the benefit is that you control the cleanup (control I am certainly willing to give up for the convenience of knowing the Garbage Collector will do the work for me).

Hope this helps,

Crystal
crystalized_s@yahoo.com

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[jfrost10]

Hey Crys,

kewl, thanks for the heads up!

For some reason when I tried to get the regions to run in C#, it didn't work. But that was a long time ago, and I don't program in the langauge, so maybe teh syntax was different or something?

Anyways, thanks for the post


jack