Chapter 19. The My Namespace

The great debate is always the same: which is better—Visual Basic or Visual C#? Because of the .NET Framework, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), and the IL language, the languages’ evolution brought both VB and C# to do the same things. Of course, there are some differences, and one language has some features that the other one does not have. One example is void lambdas in C#, which weren’t introduced in VB until this last version, or VB’s XML literals that C# does not have. Differences are obvious. One of the Visual Basic features that does not have commonalities ...

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