Possible to open multi-platform solution with VB2005 EE?

[DssTrainer]

I have a project created in VS 2003 that has a solution file that has VB.net, VC.net and VCSharp.net projects all-in-one.

I am trying to convert them to .net 2005 but it seems that the stand alone Express Editions of VB, VC, and VCSharp don't have that "bond" that the Visual Studio Suite would have so if I open the solution it asks which program to use to open it:
VB
VC
VCSharp.

No matter which one I pick, the parts of the group that belong to the other 2 platforms throw errors.

Is there a way for them to act like they are integrated so that all the pieces will properly load their respective parts?

[jmcilhinney]

As it states on MSDN, each Express Edition supports only one language, except VWD that supports ASP.NET in VB or C#. You can open a solution that contains multiple languages but only those in the language supported by the IDE will be loaded. I think that you can still run the application but I'm not sure. You certainly can't edit or rebuild the projects that weren't loaded.

[mendhak]

You can isolate your 'methods' into a class library built in C# and reference that DLL from a VB.NET project. That's as good as it gets. If it was supposed to be as multi-platform as you're imagining, there wouldn't be different languages in the framework.

[DssTrainer]

You can isolate your 'methods' into a class library built in C# and reference that DLL from a VB.NET project. That's as good as it gets. If it was supposed to be as multi-platform as you're imagining, there wouldn't be different languages in the framework.

Well thats the point. What i was referring to was the ability to have a multi-project solution file. I got the full VS2005 version now and it does what I wanted with the full multi-project/multi-platform support. So I can have a solution that has a VC++ project dependency with a VB dependency and a VC# dependency, and all the right parts of the solution will open up in their correct languages automatically.

Thanks.