Hi folks,

I'm currenly learning visual C# and I have found it prettey amazing and exciting. I'm also thinking about learning VB in the near future. Can somebody tell me what are the features available in VB which are not usually present in Visual C#?

Regards

To my knoweldge, Visual/C# is really OOP based. (right?)

That depends if you are talking about the same version of VB and C#. If they are the same version (i.e. both from Visual Studio 200x) then they have a lot of shared features.

Still, there are big differences. Most of them are outlined on the Wp page. The one that always annoyed me was that C# doesn't have access to the 'My' namespace. I still use C# over VB :P

Mike

as far as i know vb is easier to handle for people who are new to programming ;P like me ;D so i started with vb :>

Again, that depends on the difference in version. VB6 was a lot more loosely typed than VB.NET, and that's really the only thing that makes it more newbie friendly (in my opinion).

Mike

It really depends on personal preference. Personally, I would choose neither. C# has an arrogant compiler and VB's syntax can be a mess (I've never really coded in it BTW so don't quote me, it just looks that way)

I would say that a typing system is actually more suited to newbs than experianced programmers (it helps them find errors). It does tend to get in the way. Plus, in C#, you can't get rid of it or shut it up without a cast which gets tedious.

It does. Just use this instead of my

I disagree. When someone tries to MsgBox an Integer and get an error it doesn't help them find errors. It's more likely to hinder that because many VB6 programmers tend to use MsgBox rather than the debug tools. Imagine PHP if you had to keep converting your ints to strings and strings to ints (hello Int.Parse and object.ToString!).

No, it doesn't. this and My allow you to accomplish similar tasks (in a roundabout fashion; this is like just learning the framework - heck, you should probably do that anyway), but they are a far cry away from eachother.

Mike

Visual Basic 6 keeps things really simple and easy to understand (probably not deliberately ) whereas, when I tried, VB 2005, although based on VB, seems to make things more complex and hard to understand.

Unfortunately, I can only speak for VB6 and VB.NET (not C#), but if you were going to learn VB, I would recommend VB.NET (newer) if you can learn it, or VB6 if you find it hard (and if you want an easier way to network programs).

You are talking about weak typing, I am talking about dynamic typing.

But then it comes down to what you are used to and personal preference. You are a PHP user so you are used to a Dynamic and Weakly typed language. I am an ObjC user so I am used to a Dynamic and Strongly typed language. A C++ user would be used to a Static and Strongly typed language. There is no langage to suit everybody.

I strongly disagree. this merely refers to the current instance of the object whareas the My namespace contains many levels of objects which are gathered from the framework in such a way to make it easier for VB.NET programmers to access them.

All of the same information can be gathered in C#, its just that it may be hidden in a class you dont know of or have not used.

Grant