Victor,

This doesn't really answer your question, because I don't know if there's a performance hit or not, but why even bother including the "using..." for the OleDbClient if you're not going to use it?

~~Bonnie


>Using the "using..." Statement reduces the verbosity of code in .NET. However, does it affect performance if you're issueing a "using..." Statement to include a namespace you'll never use?
>
>Say for example:
>
>using System;
>using System.Data;
>using System.Data.SqlClient;
>using System.Data.OleDbClient;
>
>...
>
>In this case you'll always use the SqlClient but do you get a performance hit for including OleDbClient if you never use it?
>
>Should I be cautious about what namespaces I include? More importantly should I be cautious about how I group my custom classes in certain namespaces?
>
>TIA