Enterprise Library - Getting Started in VB?

[cara_little]

Good Morning,
I'm trying to get started with the Enterprise Library to evaluate it
and recommend to the rest of the developers in the company. However,
I'm having a heck of a time getting started and must be missing
something. All of our development is completed in VB. I have installed
Enterprise Library on my machine - however I can't compile the project.
Is the code only available in C#? which means I have to have C#
installed just to be able to build the library. If the code is only
available in C#, that makes it pretty difficult for VB developers to
customize the code.

Please advise - I'm really hoping I'm just having some "off" days and
the answer is right in front of me - I'm just blind.

 

[Lloyd Dupont]

Well, if you've got .NET, you've got C#, as the C# compiler is part of the
runtime!!!
About the IDE, well if you use VB express, you've got to download VC#
express.
But if you have VS.NET, VC# is already installed.

Also give a try to C#, you'll find it more comfortable in the long run

 

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

Hello Cara_Little,

The enterprise library is designed to be extended by adding components, in
VB or C#, that inherit from the interfaces in the library. I haven't
checked recently, but in the past, the library provides a compiled version
as well as the source code. That said, you can recompile it easily. If you
VB.Net installed, you have C#.

You should not need to modify the code in the enterprise library directly.
Simply use it and override any functionality, or create components that
match the interfaces and leverage it.

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