VB.net, C++.net or C#.net??

Richard Leatherbarrow

I have been a VB developer for approximately 10 years now and have been developing in VB.net for the past 2 years. I have decided I would like to start learning C++ but I'm not sure of its future in the .NET platform and how C# fits into this picture, I've read many things varying from C# is to be dropped to C++ is to be dropped and Windows to be ported to C#??? This doesn't really help me much as I don't want to learn a language only to find it was a complete waste of time. Any help as to which would be a good route would be greatly appreciated. Stick with VB.net, learn C++ or C#? Would C# also help me have a better understanding of C++ applications should I ever come across them?

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Mahesh Chand21y ago
I would definitely recommend C# over Managed C++ and Visual Basic .NET.
ewomack200021y ago
I can't speak to C++ very much, but C# is considered THE .NET language. VB.NET, so I've heard - and correct me if this is just a 'viscious rumor' - was kept in .NET more for marketing than technological reasons. Microsoft didn't want to upset the huge community of VB6 programmers out there by saying "NO MORE VB!!" C# has, again, as I've heard, been the foundation language for .NET. I also heard one commentator say "I'd rather have my teeth pulled than use Managed C++" (i.e., C++.NET). And the stuff I'm hearing from the C++.NET world isn't stellar (but I also haven't used it). If I had to choose, I'd go with C#.