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Re: So is it best practice to only use C# for SharePoint development?

Andrew Woodward — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:43:00 -0000

Becky,

I have to confess that I am also one of the many people who made the switch to C# from VB6, and I think your observations are correct in that most development teams now use C# as the primary language and only do VB.Net as a translation, if they really have to.

But now the MSDN site supports comments perhaps the VB.Net users out there can start to share your VB.Net translations?

Re: So is it best practice to only use C# for SharePoint development?

Becky Isserman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:03:00 -0000

I find it incredibly odd that there are no webpart templates from MS for VB .Net. It feels as though the Sharepoint Development Team is more swayed towards C#. I also think that most of the .Net community uses C# over VB .Net. I have created a few VB .Net webparts and it felt like an incredible amount of pain just to get a single web part out.

Re: So is it best practice to only use C# for SharePoint development?

Andrew Woodward — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:18:00 -0000

Thanks Paul, not being a VB.Net user I was not aware of this. Hopefully this tongue in cheek post will help to spread the word :)

Re: So is it best practice to only use C# for SharePoint development?

Paul Liebrand — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:14:00 -0000

I hate to be the one to inform you, but VB.NET does have a using statement. Here is a perfectly good example:

Using site As New SPSite("http:///portal.company.com")

Using web As SPWeb = site.OpenWeb()

Console.WriteLine(web.Title)

End Using

End Using

I do agree -- there should be both C# and VB.NET examples out there for those who need it.