Interesting quesiton. How do we do this in VB.Net?
I will start a new thread for this quesiton.

>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
>>>

>>>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() );
>>>	}
>>>}
>>>