Chapter 2. Syntax of the C# Language
C# has all the features of any powerful, modern language. If you are familiar with Java, C, or C++, you’ll find most of C#’s syntax very familiar. If you have been working in Visual Basic or related areas, you should read this chapter to see how C# differs from VB. You’ll quickly see that every major operation you can carry out in Visual Basic.NET has a similar operation in C#.
The two major differences between C# and Visual Basic are (1) C# is case sensitive (most of its syntax is written in lowercase), and (2) every statement in C# is terminated with a semicolon (;). Thus, C# statements are not constrained to a single line, and there is no line continuation character.
In Visual Basic, we could write the ...
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