Why post this, here of all places? My guess would be about 70% of Slashdot visitors hate Silverlight and 85% hate VB.
Apparently you think that being exposed to diverse viewpoints is a bad thing. 70% of Fox News fans hate Barack Obama. Wouldn't it be nice if they did some genuinely "Fair and Balanced" reporting on him sometime?
VB.Net has single line parameters, C# has XML Literals, and they are continuing to become more and more similar functionally speaking. The only big difference left now is multi-line lambdas and that C# is case sensitive.
-Rick
Optional parameters have finally been added to C# in.NET 4. Another way C# is catching up with VB;-)
The majority of difference between C# and VB at this point are due to there having been 2 teams at MS working on the VB.Net and C# editors for Visual Studio. Now, those teams have been merged.
-Rick
Interesting. Even though it's a language/compiler-specific behavior, my least favorite part of the C# editing environment - the problem with annoyingly persistent squigglies - has got MUCH better. (i.e. when you fix a compiler error you can tell its fixed without having to recompile the whole project).
Great proposal. Here's my disclaimer.
I was given the book for free. I forked out $50 for its predecessor (SL3). I thought the old book was great, and I loved the additions to the new one too. The main problems with it are those I identified in the review. My first para was probably too gushy, and who reads beyon the first para?
I have easier ways to earn $60 (spare me the jokes), and were I paid in cash I wouldn't have spent it on an update to a book I already owned. Said that in the review too.
Perhaps if you understood the difference between grammar/syntax and meaning/semantics you might make a decent programmer - in VB or any other language.
...or perhaps a snob's snob finding a reason to be civil? No, that seems to be too much of a stretch judging from the evidence here.
MM wrote this for C# also, and some of us are lucky enough to program in both languages. (Is that like mixing with the hoi polloi? Shame on me!).
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Why post this, here of all places? My guess would be about 70% of Slashdot visitors hate Silverlight and 85% hate VB.
Apparently you think that being exposed to diverse viewpoints is a bad thing. 70% of Fox News fans hate Barack Obama. Wouldn't it be nice if they did some genuinely "Fair and Balanced" reporting on him sometime?
VB.Net has single line parameters, C# has XML Literals, and they are continuing to become more and more similar functionally speaking. The only big difference left now is multi-line lambdas and that C# is case sensitive.
-Rick
Optional parameters have finally been added to C# in .NET 4. Another way C# is catching up with VB ;-)
The majority of difference between C# and VB at this point are due to there having been 2 teams at MS working on the VB.Net and C# editors for Visual Studio. Now, those teams have been merged.
-Rick
Interesting. Even though it's a language/compiler-specific behavior, my least favorite part of the C# editing environment - the problem with annoyingly persistent squigglies - has got MUCH better. (i.e. when you fix a compiler error you can tell its fixed without having to recompile the whole project).
Great proposal. Here's my disclaimer. I was given the book for free. I forked out $50 for its predecessor (SL3). I thought the old book was great, and I loved the additions to the new one too. The main problems with it are those I identified in the review. My first para was probably too gushy, and who reads beyon the first para? I have easier ways to earn $60 (spare me the jokes), and were I paid in cash I wouldn't have spent it on an update to a book I already owned. Said that in the review too.
Perhaps if you understood the difference between grammar/syntax and meaning/semantics you might make a decent programmer - in VB or any other language.
...or perhaps a snob's snob finding a reason to be civil? No, that seems to be too much of a stretch judging from the evidence here. MM wrote this for C# also, and some of us are lucky enough to program in both languages. (Is that like mixing with the hoi polloi? Shame on me!).