Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Using Third-party Programming Languages

So far, you have seen development in Visual Studio .NET using programming languages supported by Microsoft with toolset. As discussed earlier in the .NET Framework section (see Chapters 2 and 3), .NET allows third parties to develop support for new and existing programming languages. This development isn't limited at the framework level, but the tool vendors can provide integrated support for development of applications using third-party languages right within Visual Studio .NET. Now take a quick look at such integration.

One such integration is from ActiveState, which provides a plug-in for integrated development of .NET components and applications in the programming language Perl, using a plug-in called ...