Question

I’m a long time VB.NET developer and has recently switched to C#. I found out that some of the built-in VB.NET functions (which predates .NET back to 6.0 and BASIC itself) such as the String.Left, or Right, or advanced functions like saving to the registry (SaveSettings and GetSettings) are noticeably absent.

What I did was create a new project in the same solution with VB.NET as its language and recreate basically all the functions I need that are available in VB.NET. And then I just call that to the C# code I’m writing.

Since compiling the code in .NET pretty much boils down to the same CIL, it shouldn’t matter performance-wise what language I wrote the code in or whether I mix C# with VB.

Am I wrong or right?

Thanks

Answer 1

There is a namespace named Microsoft.VisualBasic, you can use it in C# projects also:

string test = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Left("abc", 2);

Don’t forget to add Microsoft.VisualBasic into References of your project.