A command line compiler is something that many of today's Microsoft centric developers have never had to deal with. Many of us have only developed Windows applications with Visual Basic. It is not possible to compile a Visual Basic 6 (and lowe) application/component using the command line - you are restricted to the IDE. Well, the .NET Framework has changed all of that. We now have a command line compiler for both C# (csc.exe), VB.NET (vbc.exe), and most likely any new language that is port..
