http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2004/05/31/145043.aspxPaul Vick has a great blog entry about C# being called the “native” .NET language and using functions in the VisualBasic namespace (some of which are faster than doing it the System namespace). A few key quotes: “The bottom line, though,en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)