Building the Project

When building an application with multiple languages, you need to build a new project for each language, because a different .NET language compiler is involved with each language. The Solution Explorer makes dealing with multiple projects of different languages easy and keeps them all within the same solution. An advantage of having multiple projects that use different compilers within a solution is that the build process can be performed on all the projects at one time with just a single step.

Creating the Application and Component Projects

The first step in building a .NET application that utilizes multiple programming languages is to decide what the primary language will be for the application. This is the language that ...

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