Writing a Cross-Language Program
The whole purpose of CLS compliance is to create a common specification for multiple languages to interoperate. According to the CLS standard, any CLS-compliant program can be compiled into a dll and used by any other CLS-compliant language. The base class libraries, written in different languages, prove that this works. To demonstrate the cross-language interoperability features, I've provided a program composed of objects from JScript.NET, Managed C++, Visual Basic.NET, and C#. Listings 35.13, 35.14, 35.15, 35.16, and 35.17 show objects written in each of these languages.
Listing 35.13. A Jscript Class: clJS.js
// JScript class to be used in C# public class clJS { public var Greeting : String; function clJS() ... |
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