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Difference Between VB.Net and C#.Net

major differences between them :-

Advantages VB.NET :-

a).Has support for optional parameters which makes COM interoperability much easy.
b).With Option Strict off late binding is supported.Legacy VB functionalities can be used by using Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace.
c).Has the WITH construct which is not in C#.
d).The VB.NET part of Visual Studio .NET compiles your code in the background.
While this is considered an advantage for small projects, people creating very large projects have found that the IDE slows down considerably as the project gets larger.

Advantages of C#
a).XML documentation is generated from source code but this is now been incorporated in Whidbey.
b).Operator overloading which is not in current VB.NET but is been introduced in
Whidbey.
c).Use of this statement makes unmanaged resource disposal simple.
d).Access to Unsafe code. This allows pointer arithmetic etc, and can improve
performance in some situations. However, it is not to be used lightly, as a lot of the normal safety of C# is lost (as the name implies).This is the major difference that you can access unmanaged code in C# and not in VB.NET.

It is easier for Visual Basic 6.0 developers to use Visual Basic .NET and for C++/Java programmers to use Visual C# .NET. The existing experience of a programmer far outweighs the small differences between the two languages.