Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

1.7. Understanding the Common Language Specification

As you are aware, different languages express the same programming constructs in unique, language-specific terms. For example, in C# you denote string concatenation using the plus operator (+), while in VB you typically make use of the ampersand (&). Even when two distinct languages express the same programmatic idiom (e.g., a function with no return value), the chances are very good that the syntax will appear quite different on the surface.

// C# method returning nothing.
public void MyMethod()
{
  // Some interesting code...
}

' VB method returning nothing.
Public Sub MyMethod()
  ' Some interesting code...
End Sub

As you have already seen, these minor syntactic variations are inconsequential ...