I know that $ can never be revealed to the public, but is it possible in anyway to determine (in a roundabout way) the number of developers using VB.net versus c#.net? I know that this is fluid of course and may not reflect the same number even a couple of months from now. I also know at one time that it was rumoured that there were an unbelievable number of vb programmers (before .net) worldwide and there certainly were a large number of vb examples available on the web (still are). I would be curious simply from the standpoint of community support and code examples on the web, etc...



>>Good morning Ken;
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>>My question has many answers and I thank you for your comments and the link. Choosing a path for .NET is important when you have that opportunity. Understanding as best you can what the benefits are of VB.NET over C# are important to us.
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>>I am sure we could choose either and be successful but we are interested in what everyone out there thinks who has knowledge on this topic.
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>Yes, anyone should be successful using either language. In short, there may be cases where it takes more lines of code in C# to do the same thing in VB, or that VB has a IDE tool to do things for the developer. C# has lower level control like C++, so there are trade offs. In general, you can do the same things with both languages, but it is how or what is involved that may differ.