Hello All,

Has anyone heard the words "VB.NET" and "CORBA" mentioned in the same sentence (other than one along the lines of "VB.NET and CORBA get along as well as cats and dogs")?

In seriousness though, does anyone know if it is possible to write something in VB.NET that runs over CORBA ORB?

I've tried searching for information about this on this site and using google and my strong suspicion is that they don't get along too well (at all) - but i've not been able to confirm this.

I'm writing an application that really needs to be able to run cross platform, ie it will have some sort of central repository and gui rinning on a windows pc, but it will want to be able to gather information from other windows and unix pcs (and perhaps ultimately MVS mainframes). As far as i know CORBA is you best bet for trying anything as ludicrous as this, and as VB is my fave language it would thrill me to bits if i were able to combine VB and CORBA.

Thanks enormously for any help / advice / criticism,