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> It offers zero value over C#

I loved VB .NET XML literals. Less relevant today with JSON all the things, but I did choose VB .NET a few times over C# just because of these guys. Made for amazingly readable (to me) XML wrangling code.

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Used to occasionally import VB libraries into C# for that sort of thing. :-)

A little known secret is that in the VB namespace in .NET full fat, there is a really nice CSV file reader/writer.

https://coding.abel.nu/2012/06/built-in-net-csv-parser/

My colleague showed me this a couple weeks ago, which makes me laugh even more when I think back to all the CSV parsers I saw in VB.NET in past gigs.

I'll admit, I'd written more than one in C# myself before I discovered FileHelpers.

I think I've written some CSV parsers until I thought to myself "I can't believe they don't have this in .NET".

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