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> Your PC with an Intel processor and Windows is a different machine
> than the .NET virtual platform, with MSIL as machine code.
> If you compile a module with language X into machine code for machine
> A, and another module with language Y into another machine code,
> machine B/=A, you won't be able to make both work together.
> For instance you won't make a Commodore 64 machine code and a PC
> machine code work together.
> Perhaps if you think to a Commodore 64 emulator instead of the .NET
> platform, it will be clearer.
> So you need to find a common machine for compiling both languages.
> For C#, only one choice: MSIL
> For Ada, you have plenty of choices: Windows&Intel32/64,
> Linux&Intel32/64/..., MacOSX&PowerPC/Intel, JVM, MSIL, UNIX,
> OpenVMS, ...
> And, hurray, you realize there is one common target machine in the
> list: MSIL.
> So you have to use the GNAT-for-.NET, not the GNAT-for-Windows.
> 
> Got it ?

Got it. So the target application would have to be recompiled using gnat-for-.net.