>>As far as I know - The Dispose() will call the Close() -- hence you needn't call Close()
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>You're right. This works. Thanks
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>As far as the loFtpWebRequest, this one does not implement IDisposable. So, I don't think it could be simplified in the Using\End Using syntax.
Using/End Using is nothing but a try/finally that in the finally part calls Dispose() If the object is not null
Gregory