> Of course the argument most often put forward by the VB camp for WITH....ENDWITH is that it reduces the amount of typing required.

Some time ago I finally switched from VB.NET to C#. As silly as it sounds, one of my reasons was the necessity to use underscores in VB multi-line statements.

I agree that ending statements with the semicolon is also questionable. But for me the underscores were much worse.