LANGUAGE .NET 2005 (vb & c#) Tips:

new features: VB.NET Section

Generics tighten control over collection types

Partial Classes: 2 files can compile to one class and assembly

Partial Classes allow extensibility without Inheritance

Intellisense allows selection of All or Most Used members to show; speeds up some

More strong typing using xml based resource files

Help will have code copy button everywhere

Operator Overloads: like with + - etc

IsNot Operator: if test isnot nothing then

More specific warnings

Global keyword

Using keyword

Continue keyword:

Split method of string: gains 8 overloads

C# and VB.NET files may exist in the same Solution w/o 2 projects

XML Commenting

C# Section

C# has most of the above VB.NET features plus more refactoring

C# cannot use as much of the My Namespace that VB.NET can

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