Sorry Bonnie, it wasn't "bait". I am looking at ASP.NET before diving into programming.NET and so don't yet know how to do it in VB.NET.

I just feel confident that the VB.NET code would be significantly more legible than the stuff shown for C#.

I liken it to regular written languages... though I know neither I feel that I have a chance with (say) Spanish but none with Chinese.

My favourite programming language remains OS/Assembler (mainframe) and it is far more "legible" than any variety of C that I have seen. Mind you, it has been 15+ years since I wrote any Assembler and mainframe code was moving to PL/1 at that time.

I personally don't see any advantage to code having to be so 'obscure' except possibly to promote elitism [hrumph...well he's not a real programmer because he doesn't do C].




>OK, Jim ... I'll take the bait. I'm not familiar with VB.NET's syntax since I also am using C#. How would you do this in VB?
>
>~~Bonnie
>
>
>>Boy, if I needed convincing that VB is a better option, this code does it!! It looks positively gibberishish.
>>
>>(not criticizing the code, that no doubt is great)
>>
>>
>>>Yes, because everything is an object in c#.
>>>In fact, the following code create an array of 2 arrays
>>>
>>>

>>>object[,] multitype = {{4, 5, 6, 1},{ "Claudio","Michel","Carlos","John"}};
>>>for (int i=0;i<2;i++)
>>>{
>>>	for (int ii=0;ii<4;ii++)
>>>	{
>>>		System.Console.WriteLine(multitype[i,ii]);
>>>		System.Console.WriteLine(multitype[i,ii].GetType() );
>>>	}
>>>}
>>>

>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi, everybody.
>>>>
>>>>Is it possible to create an multi-dimensional array in C# which contains columns of different type? If so, how?
>>>>
>>>>For example, in VFP we can do this:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>local Persons(2,2)
>>>>Persons(1,1) = "John Jones"
>>>>Persons(1,2) = 24
>>>>
>>>>Persons(2,1) = "Paul Wink"
>>>>Persons(2,2) = 30
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>Is it possible in C#?
>>>>
>>>>TIA