http://blogs.msdn.com/timng/archive/2006/12/14/friend-assemblies-for-visual-basic-orcas.aspxOne of the features missing from Visual Basic 2005 was support for what is known as friend assemblies . We are currently working on enabling Friend Assemblies for the next version of Visual Basic (code named Orcas). I wanted to share with you some ofen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/timng/archive/2006/12/14/friend-assemblies-for-visual-basic-orcas.aspx#7963840Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:57:07 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7963840Odd way to disallow execution of a Public method of an assembly - .Net Framework 2.0 « Lost Blog<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://jawwadalam.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/odd-way-to-disallow-execution-of-a-public-method-of-an-assembly-net-framework-20/">http://jawwadalam.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/odd-way-to-disallow-execution-of-a-public-method-of-an-assembly-net-framework-20/</a></p>