>Michael,
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>>I think you missed the point. What does invoking the VB.NET runtime to access VB functions from C# have to do with compairing the two languages?
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>VB.NET Runtime? What is that? <s>
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>I get your point, BTW, but what really happens with that example? I imagine it invokes the VB.NET compiler in some manner during the compile process, but the runtime is the same for C# and VB.NET, right?

Yes, the target output is to the CLR. What actually happens, I think only the designers know for sure <g>. The documention infers that it provides some code generation. "The Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace contains the Visual Basic.NET runtime. This runtime is used with the Visual Basic.NET language. The Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace also contains classes that support compilation and code generation using the Visual Basic.NET language." Microsoft.VisualBasic