What is allowed in Visual Basic that's prohibited in C# (or vice versa)?

Question

This is code-related as in what the compiler will allow you to do in one language, but not allow you to do in another language (e.g. optional parameters in

Answer 1

VB.NET has support for CIL Exception Filters, C# doesn't:

Try 
  ...
Catch ex As SomeException When ex.SomeProperty = 1
  ...
End Try 

Answer 2

In C# you have to assign your variable before you can use it. I think you can turn this off, but it's the default behavior.

So something like this:

int something;
if (something == 10)
{ ... }

Isn't allowed, but the VB equivalent would be.

Answer 3

The semi-colon that ends up every line in C# is prohibited in VB, and that always makes me smile when I try going back to VB.Net...

Answer 4

The VB 9.0 compiler automatically translates literal XML into "functional construction" syntax. The C# compiler does not support this nice literal XML syntax.

Answer 5

One of my favorites (and bummers)

In VB.Net you can struture a switch/case statement as such:

Select Case True

   Case User.Name = "Joe" And User.Role = "BigWig" And SecretTime = "HackerTime"
      GrantCredentials()

End Select

which allows you to evaluate some complex evaluations through a switch instead of a variety of if/else blocks. You cannot do this in C#.

Answer 6

Global variables don't exist in c# i think