>>>We are considering adopting .Net as a development environment and we were wondering whether we should go CSharp or VBNet.
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>>>We are "leaving" VFP and have extensively used vba in access and excel. We did do some java, c, but not as extensively, so "naturally" we would go VB.Net.
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>>>Having done some vbnet, I get the feeling that .net is rather focused on CSharp, and "also" supports VBNet. Is that just an impression?
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>>>Are there other criteria of choice that affect this decision?
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>>>Thanks for any consideration you might want to share with us.
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>>I think most replies that you will get will be subjective.
>>I think it's true that there are more on-line tutorials / code examples for C# than VB.NET
>>The wikipedia comparison is useful : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_C_Sharp_and_Visual_Basic_.NET
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>>The two main reasons I prefer C# :
>>(a) it's case sensitive
>>(b) VB has 'Option Strict Off'' . But it dfesn't matter as long as you are prepared to shoot anyone who sets it that way :-}
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>>Can't think of too much that's available in VB.NET but not C#. XML Literals maybe - but I can live without it.....
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>>Just my 10c. Oh and I think C# developers get paid more. Not sure where that leads though - maybe go with VB.NET and pay less for programmers :-}
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>Why do you like case sensitivity? That's not a leading question, nor is it a big issue to me. It just seems like asking for trouble if two variables differ only by case.

I agree. It's simply a pain in the a$$. I'm always interested in hearing about developers who actually have variable/procedure names in the same namespace that differ only in case. Especially interesting to hear justification for it.

I like to make sure they don't work for me.