I'm forced against my will to use VB at work. In C#, if I want to set the SelectedValue of a DropDownList to a corresponding value I fetch from my database, I just convert to a string and I'm done: ...

VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...