visual studio .net general: Hi All,
I m a developer switching to Dot net. We write
applications for handheld devices. In dot net we write
application using Smart Device Extensions. Now my question
is this that we should choose VB.net or C# as a platform
IDE. Please provide all the plus minus based on handheld
device development.I shall be highly obliged , if u please
send me a mail regarding this.

Thanks & rgds

Either language will serve you well. There are no .NET classes that say,
accessible from one language, but not from another.

Thanks
Mikhail Arkhipov, VS HTML Editor

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Smart Device Extensions really isn't the issue in terms of the langauge, as
above.

Some thoughts:

VB.NET is not case sensitive but C# is; and being case sensitive resolves a
lot of potential confusions and allows clearer naming conventions if case
sensiteve. The use of delegates and event handlers is a much more
understandable implementation in C#, less typing in C# none of the End Ifs
etc. Has some nice enhancements that are not in VB.NET like lock in
threading and the commenting features are better. There is a big jump in
terms of the capability of the language from VB6 to VB.NET and it was a bit
of a shock to the VB community, to quote a VB user group. There was also, i
thing a lot of pressure when designing the language from die hard VBers to
keep certain things in or not to change features. I think this compromised
it a bit eg. "Dim". Isn't this a hang over from QBASIC!

The Macro generator in VS.NET generates its code in VB.NET not C#, which is
a minor point. I used VB though all it's incarnations to the max, hated
VBScript, and love C# now.

It's a mute point at MS, each unto there own.

Ben


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