The thing is, I was looking over this thread and noticed that YAG had pointed out that C# had access to the Framework for things like the Convert class while VB had conversion routines built in that might actually be faster. For instance, Convert.ToInt32(LongVar) vs CInt(LongVar).

I wanted to make it clear that C# (and any other .Net language) also had access to those 'built in' routines which aren't really 'built in' after all.

Alan

>Alan,
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>>Admittedly, a super simple example, but I think that some people may not yet have realised that Microsoft.VisualBasic can be used from any .Net language and not just from VB.Net.
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>That's a very good point that many people have not yet noticed, as you mentioned. I referred to this point in my column "Are You More Than Your Language?" in the Sept/Oct issue of CoDe Magazine. It's pretty cool, I think, although language "purists" (if there are many these days) would say it's a bad practice.