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Which .NET language has (or will) your company standardised on?   [Edit]

Survey period: 8 Dec 2003 to 14 Dec 2003

Now that .NET is reasonably well established, which language has your company standardised on for production .NET development (Sent in by Rob Groves)

OptionVotes% 
C#67143.54
VB.NET19712.78
Managed C++885.71
A mixture / No single standard language15910.32
Other191.23
We don't use .NET at all40726.41



 
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I don't understand the point about Intellisense not being much good, I see no faults with it, I like the way it displays my XML Comments for my own classes and methods.
For my team C# is the standard (My decision). This was for a few reasons, a big part of which was the much greater supply of documentation and examples already available in C#, but also when looking at other tools, tools such as NUnit, NAnt and NDoc really stand out. Another big influence was the ability for C# and Java developers to understand each others code fairly easily.
Personally, I believe VB.Net was created to keep VB6 developers (of which I was one) from feeling too pissed off at losing the massive intellectual investment they made in becoming experts in their language. I think the initial learning curve going from VB6 to either C# or VB.Net is so great, that it doesn't really matter which language you choose, it will be difficult, but ultimately worth it.
I don't like the way VB.Net has methods that are not part of an object I think this was a decision made partly to please VB6 programmers, and partly to make it look like a different language to C#

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