Common Language Specification
One of the most important features of the .NET Framework is the CLR, which offers a common infrastructure for different .NET languages. You may also remember from Chapter 1, “Introducing the .NET Framework 4.0,” that all .NET compilers produce Intermediate Language (IL) code. Because of this, .NET languages can interoperate: An assembly produced with Visual Basic can be used by an application written in Visual C# and vice versa. But different languages have, of course, different characteristics; so if developers use specific features of a language, the risk is that another language cannot use that produced assembly or they might encounter several errors. This can occur when companies produce reusable components, ...
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