.NET From India

Late Binding - VB vs C#

Scott Hanselman has a nice post on trying to use C# and VB with Office Interop and how he found that VB made it a lot easier.

I have always argued that the two thing that acutally bring power to Office Interop when using VB is Optional arguments and late binding. Though I have made this argument many times to my peers (almost always without code in hand as they are mostly arguments over cups of coffee) this post actually has an example using the two languages and nobody can dispute the differnce in complexity that the C# sample has.

This also illustrates a point I always try to make.. It rarely makes sense arguing VB vs C# except in certain scenarios. This is one of them... In most cases choose the language you are comfortable with and start coding. It just happens that VB is that language of choice for me..

Will we see a response for the PC vs Mac Ads??

The keynote at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference just ended here in Houston now. One of the keynotes was on Vista and showed how concered MS is about all the info out there on people being not very comfortable moving to Vista and maybe waiting for Windows 7 etc. Also the whole negative publicity about Vista' stability and customers liking for XP seems to have started to have an impact on MS' marketing efforts. There was a lot of talk on Vista SP1 and also how almost 80%+ devices now have Vista drivers etc.

The other thing was also a mention of how MS wants to push back a lot more and not be just at the receiving end of all that talk. So is there gonna be a rebuttal Ad?? Who knows, lets wait and see!!!