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>Thanks Rick. VC++ is sort of cool but I can't say I'd drop C# for it, So strange though to see
>an environment so familiar and yet so alien. But my wife says anything that humbles me is
>a good thing. She is, of course,right <s>


Coding in C++ has been rightly described as the programming equivalent of using a chainsaw with all the safety guards removed. All the safety you enjoy in a managed environment like C# ... a few memory leaks here or there, a polite exception thrown, and that's about it. Not so in C++. The global heap, the stack ... it's all well within the errant program's reach. :-)