>>This is true. You don't need import the System class for that matter.
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public class Class1{}

>>I was trying to give a "fair" comparison against John's VB example.
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>Interesting, so John's two lines can be written as one line in C#? I wonder why he chose to complicate the C# code and not the VB.NET code.

Don't know. Of course you can't do much if you don't at least import the system class. I have done this before when creating a "global" include class to define properties that need to be shared such as connection strings, Database names, Test/Production flags, etc.

John is probably refering to the System class being imported without having to actually type "Import System". Kinda of minor since when you create a new class in C# the "using System" line is automatically type in for you.