Daily Archives: March 23, 2008

VS Express SKUs and how they define VB/C#

Bill McCarthy pointed out something I hadn’t noticed before.

On the VSExpress product highlights page, it kinda rubs it in our noses.

On the other hand, to the right of the images, VB & C# are treated equally

Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition is the ideal tool for productively building object-oriented applications for Windows on the .NET Framework.
 
Visual C# 2008 Express Edition is the ideal tool for productively building object-oriented
applications for Windows on the .NET Framework.

Bill is a devout champion of VB when it comes to how Microsoft itself, positions the language.