I've been working with somebody else's .NET web application recently, written entirely in VB.NET. It works just fine and VB hardly seems like a toy. An interest

I've been working with somebody else's .NET web application recently, written entirely in VB.NET. It works just fine and VB hardly seems like a toy. An interesting quirk I discovered, however, was that, with a VB.NET application, you can add individual classes as namespaces in web.config This basically allows you to import classes from App_Code globally--something which my predecessor on the project had made significant use of. And it all worked, despite the fact that it's not technically "allowed" and C# naturally prevents you from doing it. I only noticed something was amiss when I tried creating a simple Web Service and the app kept falling over.