General Considerations
The most evident difference between C# and VB syntax is that C# uses
the
semicolon (;
) as a
statement terminator, whereas VB uses a line break. As a
result, a statement in C# can occupy multiple lines as long as it is
terminated with a semicolon; a VB statement must occupy only a single
line. Multiline statements in VB must appear with the VB line
continuation character (a space followed by an underscore) on all but
the last line.
A second, and not quite so evident, difference is that C# is case sensitive, whereas VB isn’t. (Uniform casing for VB code is enforced by the Visual Studio environment, but it is by no means required.)
Finally, all types and their members have access modifiers that determine the type or member’s accessibility. The keywords for these access modifiers are nearly identical in VB and C#, as Table 33-1 shows.
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