jinx101

I'd like to say a few things. First, I love the resources on this site and the contributions from the community. This is good stuff. Second, thanks for posting the Vb template, it works great. Third, these ideological arguments about Vb vs. C# get old. C# does some things better without question but personally I prefer the additional functions that speed up common tasks I do in Vb. Honestly, when I want to use an unsafe code block, I'll just compile it into a library and include it in the Vb project. Not the cleanest approach, but it works well (for instance, I have a C# Bitmap class that uses Unsafe code that I use in Vb all the time, works very well and I get the best of both worlds... I think the term unsafe though is kind of misleading). Might not be the "preferred" solution, but it works well for me. I use both Vb and C# at work and like them both. I have a passion for BASIC though so I use it when possible while writing hobby projects (started on the C64 with BASIC and haven't looked back). Since I don't have a huge need to write code blocks that utilitize unmanged pointers, I don't run into the issues where I'd choose C# over VB (If I run into a huge performance problem here using Vb, I'll change to C# for the project). I actually understand both points of view, but some things just come down to preference and weighing whether you can accept the trade offs. Some people value the benefits of one language over another in different ways. I don't think that either are wrong, it's more about opportunity cost and what you value while programming. There is so much polarization with tech issues today that it's overwhelming at times (Vb vs. C#, .Net vs. Java, Java vs. Php, Windows vs. Mac, XP vs. Vista, Linux vs. the world). But back on topic, thanks for the template, it works great! Thanks to the community for all of the posts here, this is a wonderful site. I was going to put some UniCode art code I wrote into a plugin but I see it's already been done. Hehe. I'll have to think of something else to do.