http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspxMaybe you just started a job at a company whose development is in VB. Maybe you're working with XML, or Office, and heard that VB would be the best language for this project. Or maybe you're just switching over, to understand what millions of developersen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#9874884Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:47:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9874884apotik<p>Microsoft C# is a great product for programmer, I remember learning in University few years ago. No doubt there are a lot of &nbsp;C# programmer jobs out there.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9874884" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#9838862Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:34:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9838862steroids<p>Many Visual Basic beginners think that Visual C# is a more powerful language ... Both Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET use the common language runtime.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9838862" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#8974675Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:05:54 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8974675Fduch<p>It's so sad that in fact YOU make people switch to C#.</p> <p>Full lambdas and actions? C# only.</p> <p>Iterators? C# only.</p> <p>And the ugly reality is that you cannot write some methods in C# and other in VB. If you want the features you have to convert your whole classes to C# as you cannot define functions in namespaces.</p> <p>Why do you make us cry?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8974675" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#8961563Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:58:34 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8961563Greg<p>Good to hear that VB and C# will converge over time. &nbsp;Too often in mixed groups of VB / C# developers we get a bunch of 13 year olds shouting that their language is better instead of focusing on overall developer productivity and delivering reliable, low cost to maintain systems. &nbsp;</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8961563" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#8956858Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:08:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8956858VBTeam<p>Hi Greg,</p> <p>Thanks for your comment. It is in fact our goal to co-evolve the two languages. That means that although each language will still retain its own particular style, whatever large features we add to one language we will also add to the other. The VB/C# strategy has been different in the past, but this is what we are using going forward, and have been taking very seriously as we plan for the next release of Visual Studio.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8956858" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#8956360Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:29:09 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8956360Greg<p>Given the .NET framework is the same for both C# and VB, these two languages should converge over time and eventually be 100% portable between the two with automated tools from MS. &nbsp;Making them diverge over time with special language features or slightly different namespaces (e.g., ME in vb) is a very bad thing.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8956360" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2008/09/14/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx#8952010Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:06:34 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8952010a-foton &raquo; Have a background in C#, and starting to write some Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/09/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum/">http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/09/have-a-background-in-c-and-starting-to-write-some-visual-basic-lisa-feigenbaum/</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8952010" width="1" height="1">