>Mike,
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>Last time I looked, C# also performs implicit conversions where it can. In certain instances, like when you want to convert a string to and integer, you have to perform an explicit conversion.

Interesting, anytime I've tried to assign unlike types the compiler spits out an error message. Guess I've not had the right combination. I would still stay away from using implicit conversion in code since I feel it's a bad practice.
Do you now what types C# will implicitly convert or where the docs are on it. VB will implicitly convert between most numeric types as well as from numeric types to string for example.

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>And, before I forget, since I'm not all that familiar with VB, what sort of "useful" functions are you referring to?
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Well since 90% of the time I'm using C# none to me <s>. All of VB's functions are useful, if they were not why would they be part of the language? If you look at the available functions in VB you will know that many can easily be done in C#. The advantage that I see to a VB developer is typically less typing to perform the function and easier to port VB and VBScript code to .NET. VB programmers learning .NET will spend less time digging around the framework classes looking for how to implement the function though this may be both good and bad.