I would say it means he is probably an authority on the size of the IL of VFP toolkit (which is what you are questioning here) is more informed than you're unnamed "sources". < s > It will be interesting when Kevin has time for him to join in and see if you heard him right on all this. Like all of us, he has preferences, but he's pretty good about not being dogmatic.
>>Am I mis-remembering the name? Didn't Kamal *write* the VFP toolkit for .NET?
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>>>>Here is a complex one. The VFP Toolkit for .NET contains 229 functions available in both VB .NET and C#. The size of IL is exactly the same.
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>>>I have not tested (nor likely will I anytime soon) this myself - but either you are incorrect, or there are other sources with what I beleive to be better knowledge of this that are incorrect. .>>
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>I believe so - but that does necessarilly make him an authority on VB vs C# IL code generation -
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