Bonnie,
Thank you for the reply. Since I trained myself to use the long name it is acctually easier for me to read the long name, but I appreciate your thoughts on the subject.

Sincerely,
Einar
>Einar,
>
>As BOb said, it doesn't matter which one you use and it's pretty much personal preference. I agree with the author of the article and prefer to use string and int versus System.String and System.Int32, because I think it's more readable.
>

>System.String MyString = "Whatever";
>// -or-
>string MyString = "Whatever";
>
>System.Int32 count = 0;
>// -or-
>int count =0;
>

>Which do *you* think is more readable?
>
>~~Bonnie