C# & Vb. Net Conversion Pocket Reference

Though most programmers use two or more languages, they usually have a mastery of one. Although Microsoft has advertised that the .NET runtime is language agnostic and that C# and Visual Basic .NET are so close that switching between the two is really quite easy, that?s only true up to a point. Some of the differences are obvious, but others are very subtle. C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference helps you easily make the switch from one language to another.

The differences occur in three main areas: syntax, object-oriented principles, and the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Syntax concerns the statements and language elements. Object oriented differences are less obvious, and concern differences in implementation and feature sets between the two languages. IDE differences include things like compiler settings or attributes. There is also a fourth area of difference: language features that are present in one language but have no equivalent in the other. These unique language features are also covered in this book.

C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference is a perfect companion for documents and books that don?t have examples using your mastered language. Author Jose Mojica expects that you know one of the two languages, but does not make an assumption about which one. He presents the information in a language-neutral point of view so that programmers from either background can read a section and feel that it is targeted to them.

Perhaps you "think" in one language, but need to write code in another. Or youve been given some code to convert from one language to another. Or you want to be equally proficient in both VB and C#. This book examines the obvious and not so obvious language differences in four major areas:

• Syntax. For example, while VB uses a For. .. Next statement that has a certain format, C# uses a For statement with a completely different format.
  
  
• Object-oriented differences, or differences in implementation and feature sets between the two languages.
  
  
• IDE differences, or differences in configuration of C# and VB projects in the Visual Studio environment. These frequently overlooked settings define the way a project written in a particular language behaves.
  
  
• Unique language features that are present in one language but absent in the other.
  
  
• Whether youre converting from Visual Basic to C# or vice versa, the C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference is indispensable.

About the Authors
Jose Mojica is an instructor and researcher at DevelopMentor, a company thats gained an international reputation for its experience with COM and COM+. He teaches various courses that focus on enterprise development in COM+, IIS, .NET, and Visual Basic. Before joining DevelopMentor, Jose was a consultant at IBM, writing DCOM servers that performed speech recognition and creating ActiveX controls in ATL for the ViaVoice SDK. He has worked with Visual Basic since Version 1.0. Jose is the author of Building ActiveX Controls with Visual Basic 5.0 and coauthor of Programming Internet Controls and Distributed Applications for Visual C++ 6.0 MCSD Training Kit.