>Hi Claudio,

Hi, Kamal.

>This way the object "i" will not be boxed and unboxed everytime it is accessed. Try it now... the results should be the same.

yup, the same result... have you tried both codes (C# and VB) in your box? I´m just impressed with the difference... here, C# is twenty times faster... that code took less than 1 second in C#, while in VB, it took 20 seconds....