Debugging Multi-Language Programs
A very cool feature of .NET is the multi-language capability. I still hear discussions about which language is better, but I just don't think it matters that much any more. I don't know anyone (or any company) developing one application with language heterogeneity—for example, VB .NET and C#—in the same application, but you can do it. I have to be careful here because I haven't written an enterprise application that tests this presumption, but I have implemented Visual Basic .NET classes that inherit from C# classes and vice versa and traced through the source code in the debugger. Everything seemed to work fine. I have included a sample application in Listing 17.12 for you to play with; it is worth the “cool ...
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