what things can you do in vb.net and not in c#

Question

Duplicate of:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840397/static-variables-in-c
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158229/what-are-the-pros-of-vb-net
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623747/moving-from-c-to-vb-net
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14775/interview-question-on-c-and-vb-net-similarities-differences

From TStamper in this answer.

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What are thing you can only do in one of these langauges? For example anonymous delegates, anonymous classes etc.

Answer 1

You can write lots of very verbose code that uses up more space ;)

VB.NET coming from VB also lets you implicitly define type and convert between types whereas until var came about in C# you didn't have this option.

Answer 2

For the time being, you can't have optional parameters in C# but you can in VB.Net ,C# 4.0 will have optional and missing parameters

Answer 3

Static method variable

See:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840397/static-variables-in-c

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158229/what-are-the-pros-of-vb-net

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623747/moving-from-c-to-vb-net

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14775/interview-question-on-c-and-vb-net-similarities-differences

Answer 4

Use XML Literals is one.

Answer 5

XML Literals - this is the one feature of VB.NET I'd like to see in C#

Answer 6

Late binding

Answer 7

It's been a while since I've touched either C# or VB.net but I really miss the with syntax. It wasn't just fluff IIRC. It sped things up.

With New Instance()
    .instance_method()
    .instance_property = 5
End With

Really handy if you needed to bleem off a load of similar things on a deep property.

Answer 8

• XML Literals
• Optional parameters
• Catch filters
• Static variables (not Shared)
• Handles events
• RaiseEvent
• With