Visual Basic vs C#

I''ve been using VB for years. I started real coding with VB. I can do almost anything possible with VB (databases excepted, I hate those suckers).

I discovered C# a couple months ago. It''s like VB, but with many more advantages and (nearly) all the disadvantages removed. I am slowly working my way learning it, some day to replace VB entirely. The interface designer is mroe powerful than even VB''s. (in VS.NET and C# Builder, anyway).

C# is better than VB at GUI building. It loses some speed compared with C++ (10%-20% average is what I''ve heard) but is way faster than VB. Basically, when you need that fine control but not so much interface, use C++, and when you need a really nice interface and speed/low level control aren''t that big a deal, use C#.

Is there anyway to intergrate c++ in visual basic or c++ in c## simliar to how inline assembly works. ex


cout<<"this";
cout<<"that";
asm {
mov ax, bx
....
}
cout<<"some more this and that";

Visual Basic in C#? No, AFAIK.

C++ in C#? Just write it. In most cases it will be fine. There''s some weird stuff with pointers and managed code and stuff, but I haven''t looked at it too throughly. But in short, yes, without any special syntax at all.

In .NET it doesn''t matter what (managed) language you use. A C# can use VB.NET classes. I don''t know if you can use different languages in the same assembly. But one assembly in C# and the other one in VB.NET could be a solution for you.

If you don''t already know VB, I don''t see any reason to learn it over C#.

I would say that for really, really small quick and dirty apps, VB6, with its pretty bare IDE, still has an edge. But for everything else GUI in Windows, I would use C#.

Cédric

If you use MFC, you can draw out the GUI in 5 minutes flat, much like in VB, except you can use all of C++. This works under VC 6.

If you use .NET, you can use any managed language and the .NET framework (which is basically the Windows Forms API from VB) and the same GUI builder. However, managed C++ doesn''t have quite the full power of native C++; some things are restricted.

- serious - Just use C# - while I still think that the IDE is more heplfull in VB and can cause you to code slightly faster than in C#, it's definitely not worth learning a whole new syntax over it. In the end the C#'s syntax familiarity will ease your learning of it. - /serious -

And this way, you can still unjustifiably make fun of vb users and I can justifiably make fun of your.

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Alexandre Moura

[edited by - alexmoura on October 10, 2003 11:16:35 PM]

[edited by - alexmoura on October 10, 2003 11:17:11 PM]

::If you use MFC, you can draw out the GUI in 5 minutes flat,
::much like in VB, except you can use all of C++. This works
::under VC 6.

Sorry, what are you smoking?

The MVC / VC6 designer is a toy compared with wha you can do with the .NET designer (VB.NET, C#, Managed C++), and especially once you get some third party controls involed. You should have a look at sites like Infragistics (http://www.infragistics.com/) to see what is avialable as building blocks befoer making such ridiculous statements.


Regards

Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
(Microsoft MVP C#/.NET)

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Original post by hplus0603
However, managed C++ doesn''t have quite the full power of native C++; some things are restricted.

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This is just bull. *ANY* legal C++ program(unless they use some of the MC++ keywords as identifiers) will compile under MC++. Not all of it will compile to CIL(inline asm, etc...), but most of it will.

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Just to clarify something, all of you people saying that the VB GUI designer is better than the C# one must be talking about VB6. Since VB.Net and C# (along with every other managed language) use the exact same GUI designer. And VB6 is no longer available to buy, you can still probably find it on eBay but its getting harder and harder.

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Original post by thona
The MVC / VC6 designer is a toy compared with wha you can do with the .NET designer (VB.NET, C#, Managed C++), and especially once you get some third party controls involed.

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BUT it''s much less buggy. The .NET 2003 WinForms designer has some real doozies, especially when designing for the Compact framework. Then again, MFC probably wouldn''t run at all on most compact platforms...

ld

Thanks alot guys!!!