Syntax Comparisons
Visual Basic .NET terminates a block of code with End BlockName statements (or Next statements, for a for loop) which are more familiar for programmers with experience using T-SQL. In C#, the braces, {}, are used to delimit blocks, which is more familiar to programmers with experience in other widely-deployed languages such as C++ and Java. Additionally, in C# if a block consists of only a single statement, the braces may be omitted.
C# is case sensitive while Visual Basic .NET is not. Thus in C# it is possible to have two variables with the same name, for example variable1 and Variable1. Visual Studio will correct the case of variables as they are typed in VB.NET. In many cases however, case sensitivity can be useful. C# programmers typically capitalize type names and leave member and variable names lowercase. This allows, for example, fairly natural naming of method arguments: public int CalculateOrders(Customer customer). Of course, this can cause problems for those converting C# code to a case-insensitive language, such as Visual Basic, or to those unaccustomed to reading a case sensitive language.
Read more about this topic: Comparison Of C Sharp And Visual Basic .NET
Famous quotes containing the word comparisons:
“I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game, but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”
—Bowie Kuhn (b. 1926)