Blogs from Wise Owl on General coding in Visual Basic

How C# beat VB to take the programming language crown

Posted by Andy Brown on 13 June 2014

This blog explains why Wise Owl have gone over to the dark side, and now program in C#

Why VB trumps C#, and how trolls don't agree!

Posted by Andy Brown on 15 March 2012

I recently wrote a blog on why (I believe) VB is a better programming language than C# - I wasn't prepared for the flames this would unleash.

Why you should program in Visual Basic, not Visual C#

Posted by Andy Brown on 10 October 2011

If you're beginning .NET application development with a clean slate, you'll need to choose a programming language. VB or C#? This opinionated blog gives you some guidance!

Review of VB.NET Data Storage Structures

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 August 2011

There are a bewildering array (excuse the pun) of data storage structures available to you in Visual Basic. Choose from arrays, ArrayLists, SortedLists, Dictionaries, HashTables, Lists and DataTables, among others. This blog gives an example of each type of structure, and benchmarks them to show which perform best and worst.