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Yes, it's a good language, but I prefer C#.
Besides, WriteOnly is so weirdly funny! 
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Full ACK. It's those little advantages of C# like anonymous delegates, lambda expressions without return value, automatic properties, a.s.o. that made me prefer C#.
But one can't say VB is horrible! Basically, it has all features of C# and just an other syntax.
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haha I don't think any of the "anti-VB"'ers in here are really serious about what they say.
I've worked on a very large VB.NET project as well - A customized CMS for our government.
People are just taking the piss. 
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MarkBrock wrote: I've worked on a very large VB.NET project as well - A customized CMS for our government.
Not the one for the FBI that failed miserably and waisted $100 mil taxpayer's money by any chance is it ?
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haha... that's classified  .
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Member 2411327 wrote: The two main diferences i noticed on the transition was that intelisence is a lot better on VB, and on vb i don't have to compile the code to see errors.
That's not a language difference, it's an IDE difference.
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I am a 8yr VB (and generic BASIC) refugee and I must say that C# has given me a warm fuzzy feeling since I started using it.
One word: keystrokes  .
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MarkBrock wrote: VB itself is a coding horror.
maybe the greatest advantage to VB is that the programmers aren't as arrogant as C# programmers.
(otherwise: the meaning of writeonly also is a secret for me.)
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Arrogance? Perhaps, but stereotypes usually do not come out of a void.
Until .Net VB hardly was a candidate to do any serious work with. And those who tried often gave a picture of needlessly fighting windmills to overcome its shortcomings and proove that they were right.
Also, the acronym 'BASIC' is still held high by advertising VB as the ideal language for beginners. Is it really a wonder that all diehard VB users are automatically percieved as such?
Last, the syntax obviously is one of those love-or-hate things. So am I being arrogant if I don't want to be irritated by it the entire day? Or am I arrogant when I decide that I have better things to do than arguing with people who automatically put me into the 'annoying newbie' box?
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CDP1802 wrote: but stereotypes usually do not come out of a void.
That may be right, but then its a question of character, whether you want to take stereotypes for your opinion, and wether you want to reproduce stereotypes on and on.
To have preferences cannot be called arrogance, neither criticizing some VB concepts.
(I've lots of criticism myself, for example the mixing up of "=" and "==" in one operator - gruesome, isn't it?)
But to me it's the IDE, which keeps me staying in VB, because of the background-compiling, because contextmenu "go to definition" leads directly to the objectbrowser, and the objectbrowser displays the return-types of functions already in the overview.
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Alpha Nerd wrote: And if you use it, it turns your code into a coding horror.
Surely if you use it, you have a reason, and thus your code will not be a horror?
Pits fall into Chuck Norris.
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There is no reason for an excuse of using that thing.
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Maybe the property is part of a quantum computer and so write only to spare the possible life of a cat.
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Robert Surtees wrote: Maybe the property is part of a quantum computer and so write only to spare the possible life of a cat.
You would need 9 WriteOnly properties then. Remember; they have 9 lives!
LOL.  (who would build a supercomputer in VB? the language is slightly crippled, but this WriteOnly thing gives a advantage over C# or the awful C++)
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writeonly properties are just as possible in c#, just create a property without an accessor.
It's probably not great practice to use one but there may be times when it came in handy
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Alpha Nerd wrote: Who would use it? A coding horror in VB.
In VB? In C#, too:
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class Foo<br />
{<br />
private int _val;<br />
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public int Val<br />
{<br />
set { this._val = value; }<br />
}<br />
}<br />
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So does C# from what I can remember.
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But you do it manually. (and I think it complains.)
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Uhh, no. WriteOnly only turns off the gettor of a property. A /dev/null is a completely different concept.
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Who would turn off the gettor of a property? It turns them into black holes, and a /dev/null is one too.
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Someone writing software to control an unbuffered output device? If there's no buffer, you can't change anything that was written out, so the getter is utterly pointless.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4....
-- El Corazon
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Alpha Nerd wrote: It turns them into black holes, and a /dev/null is one too.
Not quite. It turns a property into something akin to a voting box. You put your vote in, and there's no way to get it out. The class the property is defined in gets to do whatever it needs to with the data that comes in.
In a "blackhole" null device, there isn't any processing allowable on the bits that end up in there...
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you're familiar with the software that runs in a black hole?
I want you to write an article on this, that is assuming you can get it out of there.
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Yes, I have SEEN the other side! Nothing much to see, it's pretty dark...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: it's pretty dark...
are you sure? if it sucks everything in, and never lets go, it must be bloody light
in there.
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