>>>Within the next few days we are going to be making a company decision as to which language to use. Can anyone define why VB.NET or C# might be better or worse than the other for development?
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>>No difference.
>>Everything depend where programmer come from.
>>If you are more familiar with C ->C#, if with VB - VB.Net.
>>If you expect to hire programmers which finish university with less experience ->VB
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>Thank you for your input. Something interesting about our university students is that they are being taught Java and no microsoft products!

If you are hiring Java folks, C#, or maybe even J# would be your best bet. They will be most familiar to Java folks.