>The reason Microsoft is putting this into Visual Basic is because they need to battle Java.
They can't battle JAVA with VB alone because of cross-platform issues. VB is for WINTEL platform only. IMO, the reason why they put inheritance with VB is that more on the maintenance issues and to empower it more as a RAD tool.
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net
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