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Many time I've been asked in the DotNetNuke Hebrew forums -  "why isn't there  C# version for DotNetNuke?". This question is posted by C# developers who are disappointed to discover that DotNetNuke is written with VB.Net.  (DotNetNuke is an open-source,  .Net framework to create web applications and portals). This question popularity leads the DNN (DotNetNuke) crew to pin it the top of the forums application (8280 views for a single post). Developers who ask that question, usually being motivated   by one of the two:  (1) they want to change some DNN behavior, so they must write VB.Net code (2) they want to extend DNN functionality and believe they must do it with VB.net. Neither of these statements is true or relevant. In most cases you won't care about the language a framework was written with. Here's why: