>Oops... I reread your message and I see I misunderstood it at first. You're saying "not necessarily" to my musing about whether overloading is the ONLY way.

ah, I would never understand your message about the donnut. :)

>You may be right -- I just don't know about it yet (would like to, though, if there is).
>I also don't pretend to be anything but in my infancy about .NET :)

yeah, I remembered the syntax. Take a look at Re: Optional parameters and how to deal with them Thread #790865 Message #790883