Syntactically, Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET are two different languages, just as Visual Basic, Visual C, and Visual C++ are different languages. Visual C# .NET looks more familiar to Visual C, Visual C++, and Java programmers, and Visual Basic .NET looks more familiar to Visual Basic developers. The biggest differences between the languages fall into the following categories:
- Case sensitivity
- Variable declaration and assignment
- Data types
- Statement termination
- Statement blocks
- Use of () vs. []
- Operators
- Conditional statements
- Error handling
- Overflow checking
- Parameter passing
- Late binding
- Handling unmanaged code
