What are the differences between the Visual Basic and C# programming languages?
Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET have been designed for the Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C++ communities, respectively. Visual Basic .NET was built around the concept of empowering Visual Basic developers with unprecedented power and productivity in building XML Web services, desktop applications, Web applications, and mobile applications. Visual C# was driven by developers within the C++ community who wanted more productivity in building their applications. Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET contain a very similar set of capabilities, and applications built in these two languages will exhibit similar characteristics of developer productivity, ease of debugging, .NET Framework support, and performance. However, Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET differ considerably in their user experiences, above and beyond the obvious syntactical differences. Because Visual Basic .NET targets Visual Basic developers, it incorporates many of the concepts and constructs familiar
