>Take a look at VB's vast function list for example. Yes you can duplicate all 162 functions using C# but look at all of the code you would have to write to do it. Having these functions available saves the developer a lot of coding.


You don't need to duplicate anything. All of VB's vast function list is available to any .NET application in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace. Consider this C# app:

using System;
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
	class Class1
	{
		[STAThread]
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			String mystring = "This is a string";
			Console.Write(Strings.UCase(mystring));
			Console.ReadLine();
		}
	}
}

-Dave