Included languages in the Visual Studio .Net package are : VB.Net, C#, C++ and J# (which can be ordered or dowloaded because it was not ready in february).

Other languages can use .Net because Microsoft has written the CLS (the common language specification) which describes which data types are available, how to call functions, how to define properties so that companies can write a compiler to generate code to be runned by the CLR.


>The cover of the Sep/Oct 2002 CoDe magazine has an image of a hand (mutant, or possibly genetically-modified) with "Visual Studio.Net Languages" inscribed on the palm and the 5 fingers plus a thumb each sporting the name of a different language.
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>Included in the language names are: Eiffel, Python, Perl and Cobol.
>Does Visual Studio.Net include these languages in the product?
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>(I went to a MS site for a product overview and didn't see them listed, but my web acuity is nil so I could have missed them.)
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>Thanks