Re: Is VB.NET dead?

This month's Redmond Developer magazine states VB.NET will continue to be
developed.but C# is the preferred language for general programming. Quite
frankly, I think many developers adopted C# as they quickly came to
understand web development requires a mastery of Javascript and the syntax
for Javascript and C# is exactly the same as it is with Java so a developer
learns three languages for the price of one.


<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/





"herbert" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1143496A-CD81-4E3A-8932-E5291DB184D3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear VB.NET Team,

you did a wonderful job in making VB.NET a full fledged language, at least
on the compiler side. When teaching students I always see that solving
labs
using VB.NET gives a faster result than C#.

However the "distribution chain" to your customers is totally wrecked:
I bought five WCF books in the last months, none of them contains VB.NET
samples. Nor does any of the source code websites I visited lately.
(M.L. Bustamente just shipped a subset of samples in VB.NET, yet her book
does not use it).

The Problem:
VB.NET programmers spend/waste considerable time translating code snippets
and samples by figuring out how to translate nitty gritty C# features
which
are not available in VB.NET into working code.
I even have a book by Chris Sells (Programming Windows Forms 2.0) who
wrote
me that one of his sample cannot be converted to VB.NET without redesign.

I understand that you have no influence over the publishers like o'Reilly
or
Wrox. However

1) you have full access to the publication pipeline of MS-Press (yes: the
WCF books of MS-Press just ignore VB.NET!) So why does MS-Press ignore
VB.NET
?

2) All the books are written by authors who are more or less in close
proximity to Microsoft: Juwal Löwy, M.L. Bustamente all make their money
consulting MSFT technologies. So please talk to them!

So for all book writers, speakers at conferences etc:
give them a paper what to avoid in C# in order to make reading for VB.NET
guys easier.

(and keep on rewriting the VB.NET online help samples so that they don't
look like auto-converted C#: there is a For...Each in VB.NET!)

thank you very much
no code no glory!
herbert


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