Hi, I would also like to ask you between VB.NET and C# which is better to specialize as application development in both Windows and Web applications
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well.. there is no real dif. between them... you can do anything in any of them...

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While I agree that in principle the two can do the same kinds of things, I would disagree about their usefulness. I know that different industries and different geographic areas specialize in different ways and move at different speeds technologically, but where I am (Southern Cal) people aren't terribly impressed if you tell them you've got VB experience. If you tell them you're learning VB they look at you downright weird. In my corner of the world VB is increasingly being viewed as old fashioned, and companies are frequently "upgrading" their VB apps to C# when they add new functionality. There's a lot of call for experienced C# guys, and VB coders are having a hard time in interviews. That's why we're all desperately retraining in C#. Your corner of the world may be different, but here VB is on it's way out.

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Are you talking VB or VB.NET?

The problem is that the people recruiting and filtering resumes don't understand that for 99.99% of .NET development, there is no difference between VB.NET and C#. My take is that C# is recognized as .NET whereas VB, even with the .NET attached is still confused for old VB (6 and down) by the people making hiring decisions. They don't understand the technology. I would love to hear that they DO understand the technology. They certainly should if they are finding job candidates. However, sadly, they are mostly sales and marketing type people who work with buzzwords. Someone please prove me wrong.

The short of it is that if you compare VB.NET to C#, it mostly comes down to curly braces and language keywords. Functionally, it's very similar.

-Peter

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I think the same applies for VB :) (Yes, I've coded with VB6 and VB.NET for y... y... YYY... YAAYEAR... years)

yeah peter you are totally right..

as for the .net.. I tried working with both C# and VB.Net.. development wise.. I found no difference..
But "I might be wrong though", I believe there is some difference with the compiling time.. I can't prove it :) but I believe C# is compiled faster that the VB.Net... again I am not sure :)


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Differences in compile are certainly likely but they are probably negligable.

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