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I am about to embark on some web development and the question is - VB 2015 or C# 6? I am a Visual Basic man right back from Sinclair's first ZX Spectrum. Since then, any programming I've had to do was usually in VB. I even contracted for a large company and wrote a number of large programs in VB. Since I've been dabbling in websites, I've used C# for the odd bit of coding I've needed but am not familiar with the latest assemblies; C# 3.0, possibly 4.0, was the last I used.
I now want to try and re-write a site for my Bowling Club with the look and feel of Win10 using Bootstrap/Bootmetro. There is an SQL Server database holding the last 4 years worth of information currently set up which is currently displayed by a poor front-end website. I want to recode the website using VS 2015 ASP.NET Core 1.0 and either VB 2015 or C# 6.0, but which?
Thank you for the replies below which all say "Go with C#". That I will do. I have found another reason to go with it - ASP.NET Core 1.0 doesn't support VB.
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I recommend C# - not because of any inherent difference between the languages but because you should work on being a polyglot programmer by making more use of your "weaker" languages.
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Always go with C# because that is what the industry has primarily adopted. It's very easy to switch back and forth between C# and VB if you had to but very few code samples online are in VB.
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Go C#. VB is for liberal snowflakes that are afraid to commit to a strongly typed paradigm.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Go C#. VB is for liberal snowflakes conservative flatulaters that are afraid to commit to a strongly type paradigm.
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Hey, nothing wrong with conserving one's flatulence. You never know when it will come in handy. 
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Slacker007 wrote: You never know when it will come in handy.
Yes, you do. Because it's always handy.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: VB is for liberal snowflakes that are afraid to commit to a strongly typed paradigm.
I think I'm going to co-opt that and replace VB with my favorite loathsome script language du jour.
Marc
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Permission granted, sir.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If just a personal project go with what you are comfortable bit.
But if wanting to expand skills with something that is more commercially used at the moment then I'd use c#.
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I'm in the C# camp but really only because of my path from BASIC to C and C++ (with a few others along the way - PHP, Protel, Swift, etc). I really like C# but you can achieve most (if not all) of the same things with VB.NET - if you're comfortable with that, I'd say stick with it as you'll be more productive.
As for ASP.NET Core, it looks really promising - the idea is great, but it's still early days. There are some holes around using Entity Framework (e.g. building and running an ASP.NET app on Linux/Mac that uses a SQL Server/SQL Azure backend) and publishing your finished app. I've played around with JetBrains Rider[^] which is really good (much better than VS Code in my opinion), but I think that a bit more development is needed to make it dependable for production apps.
If you're just looking to get into C# then go for it..
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.NET will allow a lot of sharing amongst program pieces (DLL's, for example) - and they use the same set of procedures and namespaces.
That being said, C# follows the "C" syntax/structure - which is far and away the most often used structural design out there. It prepares you for then, now, and the future much more thoroughly.
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C#. AFAIK VB lacks the syntax for some capabilities, whihc is dumb since both are CLR based languages. Go with C#.
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If you're looking to use ASP.Net Core, it's worth remembering that .NET Core doesn't yet support Visual Basic.
If you'll be running on Windows using the full CLR and .NET Framework, you could still write most of your app logic in VB if you want to - your ASP.NET web app would be in C#, but you could have a separate VB project that you reference from your web app.
Of course, even that isn't so simple right now. In VS2015, if you add a regular .NET class library project to a solution that already contains an ASP.NET core application, you can't just add a reference to the class library project from the ASP.NET Core project. You'll have to build the class library first and reference the .dll.
That restriction will probably be gone in VS2017. .NET Core projects will be switching back to using .csproj instead of project.json. The VS2015 .NET Core tooling doesn't currently support that, but VS2017 RC does.
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Thanks for that. I discovered it wasn't supported in Core 1.0, so have already decided to go with C#.
Ryan Peden wrote: That restriction will probably be gone in VS2017.
I can't wait for 2017 - I may not be here then. I'm 74 next week!!!
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Sounds like a good plan!
For what it's worth, VS2017 RC available now, and according to these release notes, the updated .NET Core tooling will let .NET Core projects reference other projects in the same solution. So if you get into the project and find yourself wishing for VB, at least it's still an option.
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xiecsuk:
I am probably the only guy here anywhere near your age. I know how hard it is to master "new" stuff after 60.
It appears that you are saying:
"I am a 74 year old long-time VB developer. I am going to build something in .Net Core with ASP and C#, none of which I have ever used before. I don't have time to wait for VB in 2017 because I am so old".
2017 will be one of your more interesting years ...
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I moved from VB to C# and it wasn't a difficult transition (I did start out in life as a C programmer but I'm not sure that that was a huge factor).
C# is, undoubtedly, a vastly superior language to the syntactically hideous VB and it has the added advantage of being used by far more people so it's much easier to get help when you need it.
If you decide to go with C# you'll wind up being glad that you did.
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C# 6 without question
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They had VB for the Speccy?
Us experts used Sinclair Basic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Of course, you are right; Sinclair Basic it certainly was. But that was virtually the same Basic that ran on any of the early machines. I had an Oric machine as well that had an almost identical version of Basic.
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I saw no mention of this. You said the last C# you used was possibly 4.0? If it was then you don't have much to catch up on. C#5 and 6 are relatively small in changes compared to 3.0 and 4.0. C#5 introducing async and caller information for debugging while C#6 is mostly just quality-of-life improvements to syntax.
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Forget the c# vs VB discussions on syntax and typing. there is only 1 valid criteria you should apply, which has the most and best support resources.
Others have mentioned it, most examples on the interweb are in c#.
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PHP, HTML, Java script, linux, these give you freedom. I been doing VB.6, VB.Net for 20 + years and use it regular.
But when looking for a job they throw it in the ad as a way to get you to look.
Reading the job ad deeper you realize they want C#, java script, hmtl, web api skills etc.
I have switched to Php and laravel and vue.js and am very happy.
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