Larry,

>> I don't think they are going to be supported under VB.NET either (they
>> weren't initially unless it has changed in the last month or so).

Its a real shame that you couldn't use an overloaded operator (assignment operator) to give you this behaviour. You can do it in C# but not in VB.Net and the documentation says that operator overloading is totally at the discretion of the compiler writers???

Another reason to use C# over VB.Net.