Visual Basic (VB) Vs. Visual C# (C Sharp) For Beginning Windows Developers

If you are going to learn developing on a Windows Platform Microsoft Visual Studio is the way to go, and the Express versions are free, which make them a great choice for the starting programmer. If you are looking to be an IT Administrator Visual Basic is likely the way to go, if you are hoping to go in to Game development C# is likely a better choice.

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visual basic vs visual c sharp for
beginning programmers
for the beginning programmers wants to
start by making tangible applications
that they can run on their desktop both
visual basic and visual c sharp are
great choices because microsoft offers
express editions of both of these
programming languages you can get
started for free
the determination is too which is a
better fit for you is probably more of a
choice about where you want to be going
in the next five years rather than what
do you want to do today the capabilities
of both visual basic and visual c sharp
are pretty similar and while visual
basic is a little faster to write code
in you can do more per line of code and
you don't have to declare as many
variables are as many settings so visual
basic will let you build more faster but
visual c sharp will actually let you do
some things that visual basic well in
terms of which api's it will interface
with because of this you can think of
visual basic as a great multi-purpose
tool a lot of people who've gone back to
learn visual basic after having learned
other languages learn it because it's
what hours windows script host and also
because it's a very fast language if all
you need to do is make say a
configuration tool if you've got a
windows login script that's going to
deploy another application visual basic
is a great way to create a forum page
where user can enter a bunch of
information push save and export and xml
file that's picked up by another program
or register your document or determine
which installer you're going to run c
sharp on the other hand is because it's
a c-like language is a great leaping off
. for learning visual c++ or learning
just playing C or starting on a road to
python and some of the other web
languages
c-sharp is probably the better choice if
your endgame is to learn to write games
or game technologies visual basic is
probably better if you're going down the
path of web development towards Java and
JavaScript our visual basic is also a
great language if you're going to be
doing a whole bunch of stuff with asp
which is the microsoft web language that
powers asp.net stuff
asp is a great language for doing web
stuff on a Microsoft platform and for
the most part is written as visual basic
code that runs on compiling as a
scripting language so probably choosing
which one of these you want to do is not
a function necessarily what you want to
do today but what you want to be doing
in five years