Marking Assemblies and Types as CLS Compliant
Chapter 2, “The Visual Studio 2015 IDE for Visual Basic,” and Chapter 3, “The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project,” offer an overview of assemblies. When you produce a reusable component such as a class library or a user control such as a .dll assembly, you need to ensure that it is CLS-compliant. You can add the following attribute to the assembly definition:
<Assembly: CLSCompliant(True)>
This attribute tells the compiler to check whether a type used in your code is CLS-compliant. If the compiler finds a non–CLS-compliant type, it reports a warning message. Assembly members should also be marked as CLS-compliant if you plan that they will be. A class is defined CLS-compliant ...
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