Bonnie,
Thanks for your reply. I have been reading a lot of VB.NET code lately, mostly to learn more about VB.NET (even if C# is my language of choice). I found this little piece of information in the M$ docs about CType() kind of odd:

CType is compiled inline, meaning the conversion code is part of the code that evaluates the expression.
Execution is faster because there is no call to a procedure to accomplish the conversion.

Execution is faster compared to what? CType() is explicitly converting an object to another object, is casting in C# (also explicitly converting) slower than CType() in VB.NET?



Einar

>Yep, that's the correct conversion.
>
>~~Bonnie