Adoption and Community Support
Both C# and VB.NET have high adoption rates, and very active developer communities and Microsoft fully supports both communities. .NET Framework developers widely use both VB.NET and C# as primary languages. However, C# has more community activity on the Internet and there are more books available for C#. This may indicate either that there is more adoption of C# or that users need more help with it.
Examples of community and industry adoption include:
- TIOBE Programming Community Index for July 2010 show that C# surpassed Visual Basic
- An original C# language designer, Scott Wiltamuth, stated in a March 2010 blog that the "most reliable numbers we have... show roughly equal adoption" for VB.NET and C#.
- Telerik Survey 2009 suggested that C# (69%) further strengthens its dominance over VB.NET (30%) as the primary programming language.
- Telerik Survey 2008 suggested that C# (63%) had surpassed VB.NET (34%) as the primary programming language.
- A 2007 Forrester Research poll revealed that 59% of .NET developers used only VB.NET to create software.
- Visual Basic Express is the most popular download of all the Visual Studio Express downloads.
- According to a survey conducted by Visual Studio Magazine "41 percent said they used C#, 34 percent programmed in VB.NET, while 25 percent responded with 'other.'"
- Stephen Wiley, marketing product manager at Apress has reported "C# titles outsell VB.NET title books handily, by somewhere between a 2–1 and 3–1 margin."
- MSDN Blogs, the blogging site for Microsoft employees, has 27,500 posts that discuss C#, while only 8,880 mention VB.Net (as of November 15, 2007)
- Google Groups, a Usenet search engine, returns 36,900 hits for "VB .Net", and 65,700 for C#
Read more about this topic: Comparison Of C Sharp And Visual Basic .NET
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—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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