Thanks Rick,

I thought about that approach, but rejected it w/o thinking it through.
My original thought was that I would be maintaining almost identical code in 2 methods, but the correct approach would be to factor out common code to a new method that the original and overloaded methods would call. Thanks for helping me think that through.

Bruce

>Yes everytime the signature of a method changes you defintitely need to recompile. You might be able to get away with polymorphism though by creating an overloaded method that has the new parameter signature without recompiling.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>I have an assembly that defines a bunch of shared subs and functions that are called by a bunch of other assemblies. If I change the signature of a sub (added an optional parameter to the end of the parameter list) in the Common assembly do I need to re-compile all assemblies that might call the Common Assembly? From the errors I generated today, that appears to be the case. Just would like to know why?
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>>Thanks