A NUMBER OF LANGUAGES work with the .NET Framework. Microsoft is releasing the following four languages with its Visual Studio .NET product: C#, Visual Basic.NET, JScript.NET, and Managed C++. The languages likely to be the most popularare Visual Basic .NET (which I discuss in this book) and C#. C# (which you pro-nounce C Sharp) is the language that Microsoft is using for all its own internaldevelopment for .NET, so a comparison of C# and Visual Basic .NET is in order. Inthis appendix, I cover the similarities and differences between C# and Visual Basic.NET. If you want to go over the different concepts in Visual Basic .NET beforereading about C#, look at Chapter 2, which is the roadmap for this appendix. Although by no means an exhaustive list of the differences between C# and Visual Basic .NET, this appendix should give you a good start if you have any inter-est in programming in C#. Here are a couple of the better sites on the Web about C#: x www.c-sharpcorner.com : A site that offers some samples that show you a variety of techniques. x www.csharpindex.com : This site provides code samples, tutorials, and decent links to other C# sites.