---
title: "VS.Net multi language bug - 2.5 years and still going strong?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/18/vsnet-multi-language-bug-25-years-and-still-going-strong.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/18/vsnet-multi-language-bug-25-years-and-still-going-strong.html"
published: "2004-02-18T05:12:00"
updated: "2004-02-18T05:12:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is indeed a very annoying bug , and arguably has high importance because being able to develop on multiple languages is one of VS.Net's most touted features. Annoyingly enough, this problem only happens when the…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# VS.Net multi language bug - 2.5 years and still going strong?

By Roy Osherove February 18, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 18, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[This is indeed a very annoying bug](http://weblogs.asp.net/prieck/archive/2004/02/17/75266.aspx), and arguably has high importance because being able to develop on multiple languages is one of VS.Net's most touted features. Annoyingly enough, this problem only happens when the Unifying GUI app is a VB.Net app, not C# one.

Does anyone from the VB.Net\\VS.net team care to comment on why this problem, that has existed ever since the Beta 2(or beta 1) days of VS.Net has not been fixed up until today, and **still** exists in Whidbey?

\[via [Philip](http://philiprieck.com/blog/archive/2004/02/17/MultiLangageInVSNet.aspx)\]

## More in .Net Quotations

[All posts in .Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

- Feb 21, 2004

    ### [More Lookup table techniques](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/21/more-lookup-table-techniques.html)

- Feb 18, 2004

    ### [The .Net debugging experience - you can help make a difference](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/18/the-net-debugging-experience-you-can-help-make-a-difference.html)

- Feb 14, 2004

    ### [Accumulated links](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/14/accumulated-links.html)

- Feb 11, 2004

    ### [\[Tool\] QuickJump - very nice and simple VS.Net add-in](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/11/tool-quickjump-very-nice-and-simple-vsnet-add-in.html)


---

## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/