Mike
>>I wouldn't make blanket statements about .NET being slow. The StringBuilder class is literally hundreds of times faster than string handling in VB6.<<
Well, I did express it in terms of my experience and provide an example rather than providing a blanket statement...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1