Why should someone even bother to learn c#?
1. If you have look around in forums you will notice that the majority of developers is using c#.
2. C# looks alot like java and C, there are more simularities between c# and other popular programming languages.
3. New developers are using C#, that means developing in VB .NET will reduce in the future.
4. Most popular open source projects is written in C#.
5. C# is the preffered .NET Language by microsoft.
6. It sometimes comes in handy to know more than one programming language, you can work in both c# and vb .NET developer teams.
Part 1
VB .NET intellisense support in Visual Studio is much better than C# intellisense. This is somewhat disturbing and antimotivating to
the most VB .NET developers who what to learn C#. Fortunatly there is a third party VS Addin tool that makes the experience far better than VB .NET.
This tool is called Resharper. You can find more details about the product on the official website http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/index.html.
Resharper has alot more features like refactoring , code generation, error analysis and suggestions. If you plan on learning C# this is a must have tool.
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