E per chi come me mastica poco C#, ecco qui la versione VB.NET del codice postato sopra:

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Public Shared Function trasf(ByVal pXmlPath As String, ByVal pXsltPath As String) As String
Dim transform As New XslCompiledTransform()
transform.Load(pXsltPath)
Dim ws As XmlWriterSettings = transform.OutputSettings.Clone()
ws.CheckCharacters = False
Dim sb As New StringBuilder()
Dim sw As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(sb, ws)
transform.Transform(pXmlPath, sw)
Return sb.ToString()
End Function
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