Anders Hesselbom

The differences, part 1

2009-04-26

Visual Basic and C# is mainly the same thing today. I imagine that Microsoft have a slightly different vision on what they the languages to be, and these differences might be even more clear in future versions. Version 9 of Visual Basic has a few features that C# 3.5 is missing, and the reason for the missing features, might be that Visual Basic has a higher focus on RAD, while C# has a higher focus on reusability.

Completion lists are used to point out a palette of default values for a new object instance. Object initializers allows the programmer to set properties of an object at instantiation. Deep XML support provides design time support for XML and declarative event handling provides design time support for events.

More differences are explored here.

Categories: Visual Basic 9