What are the differences between Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET?
VB .NET and MS Visual C#™ .NET have been designed for the VB and MS Visual C++ communities, respectively. VB .NET was built around the concept of empowering VB developers with unprecedented power and productivity in solving today’s application development problems more effectively and efficiently—from desktop and Web-based application development to ending deployment and versioning problems, informally referred to as ‘DLL Hell.’ Visual C# was driven by developers within the C++ community who wanted more productivity in building their applications. VB .NET and Visual C# .NET contain a very similar set of capabilities, and applications built in these two languages will run at the same speed. However, VB .NET and Visual C# .NET differ considerably in their user experiences. Because VB .NET targets VB developers, it incorporates the concepts and constructs familiar to VB developers, such as VB language syntax and semantics, case-insensitive coding, a powerful background compiler, and the o
