C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference

Jose Mojica is an instructor and researcher at DevelopMentor, a company that's gained an international reputation for its experience with COM and COM+. He teaches various courses that focus on enterprise development in COM+, IIS, .NET, and Visual Basic. Before joining DevelopMentor, Jose was a consultant at IBM, writing DCOM servers that performed speech recognition and creating ActiveX controls in ATL for the ViaVoice SDK. He has worked with Visual Basic since Version 1.0. Jose is the author of Building ActiveX Controls with Visual Basic 5.0 and coauthor of Programming Internet Controls and Distributed Applications for Visual C++ 6.0 MCSD Training Kit.

Introduction Conventions Used in This Book Syntax Differences Case Sensitivity Line Termination Comments Namespace Declaration and Usage Variable Declaration Variable Initialization Declaring Function Parameters Passing Function Parameters Optional Parameters Parameter Lists Method Declaration Returning Output Parameters Program Startup Exiting Programs/Methods/Loops Member Scope Static and Shared Methods Classes Versus Modules If Statements Short-Circuiting Conditional Statement Properties and Indexers Arrays for Loops For/Each Loops Try/Catch Blocks Attribute Usage Control Characters Type Comparison and Conversion Object-Oriented Features Inheritance Syntax Method Overloading Constructors and Field Initializers Invoking Other Constructors Invoking Base Constructors Initializers Hiding Base Class Members Overriding Methods Requiring/Preventing Inheritance Declaring and Implementing Interfaces Delegates and Events Comparing Classes String Comparisons IDE Differences AssemblyInfo.x Default/Root Namespace Startup Object App.ico Imports / using COM References Compiler Constants Option Explicit, Option Strict, Option Compare Errors and Warnings Unique Language Features Unsafe Blocks (C SHARP) using (C SHARP) Documentation Comments (C SHARP) Operator Overloading (C SHARP) Late Binding (VB)