VB is more so than C#. Instead of having the "dynamic" type, which lets you enable late binding for specific references, it has "Option Strict Off". That one enables late binding for every single reference of type Object in the file in which it appears.
And it's had that behavior for much longer than C# has; I think since the very first version of the language. Though I suspect that the implementation of late binding has become more efficient since the DLR came along.
