>Hopefully, my response to Mike, sans (that means "without"; Mike) pictures, should help and clarify...

It does I guess, but I still can't agree. Sure you can call yourself or anyone you choose an "expert", but it sure doesn't make it so. In fact to a large degree that is what this whole discussion is about.

Again, I contend, with considerable logic to back it, that it is premature for anyone of character to call themselves, or be called, a ".NET expert" at this stage of the .NET product delivery cycle (you have said you aren't one, so you have character < s >). The people who know the most still do not know enough to be "expert", and should there by chance be one or two that do, they simply can't matter in the overall scheme of things.