February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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3.1. Future Coevolution of VB and C#
All .NET languages compile to the same IL code, so there is really no reason a feature should be present in one language and not another. Traditionally, C# has gotten most of the new features, but not anymore. Microsoft has stated that it will now aim to ensure that VB and C# contain the same functionality. VB.NET and C# will be kept in sync: when a new feature is introduced in one language, it will be brought into the other language in the next release. There will of course continue to be style differences between the languages, so don't expect to see semicolons appearing in VB.NET!
This release tries to sync the two languages, fixes an old constraint, and introduces some great dynamic functionality. VB.NET ...