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by Anand M.
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When MS announce .NET and talked about two languages that was going to be part of it, C# and VB.NET, there was a lot of debate on why the two language approach as well as "VB is better than C#" and vice versa.
There has been hours of entertainment provided by the VB vs. C# debate. There was even one very recently on the internal Indian MVP lists too..:-)
But one of the most debated issues has been that of how many VB developers would prefer to move to C#, rather than VB.NET, as they were re-learning a new language anyway. I have mostly argued that it is not a question of learning a language, but rather a developers comfort with the structure of the language that is going to count. A VB developer would surely feel more comfortable working with VB.NET than all those curly braces in C#. So he will be more productive moving to VB.NET.
Now looks like that is happening. VB.NET seems to be picking up quite nicely compared to C# according to this new survey from SearchVB.
In our poll, VB.NET language use measured at 52.9 percent, while infant C# use is at about 30 percent [See Figure 2] From this, one might judge that VB6 to VB.NET migration is well underway.
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