>>Hi Paul,
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>>>Are you sure?
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>>I was. <g> As you pointed out, the IDE does not catch all bugs. It performs checks in the background, however, and catches significantly more errors than the C++ environment. At least I noticed this as a huge improvement when I switched from C++ to C#.
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>Eh, now I get a bit confused, does it give you hints when you do make a typing mistake, or only after you compiled it?

Only when you compile it (the two cases I showed won't get highlighted until you compile). Other cases will show up immediately (ex. missing/incorrect line endings, curly braces, etc). Usually the intellisense won't work, which is a red flag right away (in case you missed the red squiggly).

I haven't worked much with VB.NET, but I seem to remember that it did more background-compilation checking than C# did/does. But like I said, there are third party add-ins which give you more syntax checking w/o compiling.