>>>What are people's thoughts regarding learning VB vs. C#? my understanding is that
>>>there are no major technical differences in their capabilities and that compiled
>>>code from any .NET language is compatible with modules written in any other...
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>>They are similar. They compile practically to the same. It is a matter of preference.
>>If you learn one you can easily be conversant in the other later. The importance and difficulty is not in the language but in the framework.
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>>>Is the programming market better for one or the other?
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>>Don't know. Our shop uses C# even though I come from VFP (still use it) and our web guys come from
>>VBS/ASP. We all prefer C# to VB. Is it better? No. Just a preference.
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>>>I would think that VB would
>>>be a bigger market, seeing that VB has been around a lot longer.
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>>That is not so. VB.NET has not been around a lot longer than C#.
>>Don't confuse VB with VB.NET as they are not the same, just as C# is not C++
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>Acctually I think M$ has decided to drop the .NET from VB so it is nolonger called VB.NET it is simply called VB (as of .NET framework 2.0). Now what you don't want to do is confuse VB6 with VB lol

Have you guys forgotten about VB 1? :)