Comments on: Forced to use VB http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim Losi http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jim Losi Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:56:10 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/#comment-13 *(chuckle) * Yeah, I thought the AndAlso were a big "You gotta be joking, right?" kind of syntax too. I mean, VB's syntax is very english-like but there has to be some point where they stop increasing the verbosity of the language. I kind of wish they would dump having to use DIM to declare a variable. If they used C#'s way of declaring variables and left the rest pretty much as is, I think that would be nice :) *(chuckle) *
Yeah, I thought the AndAlso were a big “You gotta be joking, right?” kind of syntax too. I mean, VB’s syntax is very english-like but there has to be some point where they stop increasing the verbosity of the language. I kind of wish they would dump having to use DIM to declare a variable. If they used C#’s way of declaring variables and left the rest pretty much as is, I think that would be nice :)

]]> By: ben http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/comment-page-1/#comment-12 ben Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:06:32 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/#comment-12 Jim, funny you should mention the OrElse and AndAlso keywords, I just posted about them a couple days ago :) http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/05/30/uh-andalso/ I didn't know that the "using" keyword is available, thats nice to have, thanks for the tip! I too like the fact that I'm fluent in both languages now. Jim, funny you should mention the OrElse and AndAlso keywords, I just posted about them a couple days ago :)

http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/05/30/uh-andalso/

I didn’t know that the “using” keyword is available, thats nice to have, thanks for the tip! I too like the fact that I’m fluent in both languages now.

]]> By: Jim Losi http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Jim Losi Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:13:35 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/06/16/forced-to-use-vb/#comment-11 quite interesting. I was a old (classic) ASP programmer and moved to .NET using VB.NET and I was totally against "curly" anything.. just didn't like to stare it at all. I landed a new job and it's all C#.. so I too was forced to use something that I had very little interaction with until I had no choice. Now, I quite like it and being bi-lingual rocks :) I can switch in a heart beat. don't know if you know or not so I'll just say it any way. -the "using" keyword is available in VB as in using(datareader){} in C# ex: -code snippets actually automatically add any imports to the class that are needed -short circuit your conditionals with OrElse and AndAlso keywords. Or and And are throw backs to VB6 for backwards compat. quite interesting. I was a old (classic) ASP programmer and moved to .NET using VB.NET and I was totally against “curly” anything.. just didn’t like to stare it at all. I landed a new job and it’s all C#.. so I too was forced to use something that I had very little interaction with until I had no choice. Now, I quite like it and being bi-lingual rocks :) I can switch in a heart beat.

don’t know if you know or not so I’ll just say it any way.
-the “using” keyword is available in VB as in using(datareader){} in C# ex:
-code snippets actually automatically add any imports to the class that are needed
-short circuit your conditionals with OrElse and AndAlso keywords. Or and And are throw backs to VB6 for backwards compat.

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