C is frequently compared to C++, the language that—as the name suggests—was created as an extension of C. The differences between ... after their introduction, C# and .NET remain major parts ...

At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ..

Brace pair colorization, which helps distinguish opening and closing braces for code, is supported for C#, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic, and Razor. An enhanced spell checker checks C# ...

and all round making F# fit into the .NET landscape as well as C# and Visual Basic already do. The company has expressed no plans for the development of C++/CLI, its version of C++ for .NET.

int someValue = default(int); The role of Nothing as an initializer makes for some interesting coding differences between the two languages. Consider the following Visual Basic statement and its ...