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ocdtrekkie
on May 14, 2023
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There's actually a bunch of features in the VB library that aren't in C# out of the box that make building stuff with VB a bit faster.
ethbr0
on May 14, 2023
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Agreed. VB.NET does have some weirdly useful built in functionality, that isn't in C#. From memory, date and string stuff?
ocdtrekkie
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That's in there, but the entire My namespace is VB-specific. A ton of things like using settings and log providers that are basically prefab in VB, but you have to set up custom in C#.
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