Apologies, I should have chosen my words more carefully. I admire the Indian system of voting and wish we had an American version. Daniel

1. In Log4J you can use something called AsyncAppender. It takes references to already instantiated Appenders and uses them to write asynchronously. 2. Your are not wrong about writing to memory being faster than writing to disk. But, if your ultimate goal is to have another layer of abstraction manage logging to disk for you faster than using System.IO you probably won't find anything that can. It won't be faster because that extra layer of abstraction will necessarily add some time to processing your logging plus writing the information to disk later. Daniel

When I first heard about electronic voting I thought "finally". If a country like India can do it, why can't we? Well, from what I just read I would say someone is trying to pull the wool over the American peoples' eyes. I say they need redesigning, and the people who designed them in the first place need to shipped to some other country where their particular political talents could be put to greater use. Iran, China, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, etc would be better for fascists like these. Because ain't nobody that stupid. Daniel

Log4Net looks suspiciously like Log4J. Easy to use; but a hog and will slow your program down. In Log4J there are asynchronous appenders, look for the same in Log4Net. You should see some increase in speed; but I wouldn't expect any logging framework to be faster or even as fast as System.IO. Daniel

Hey all, We have a C++ GUI application built with Trolltech's QT and building with Visual Studio as a Win32 application. If I were to want our application to make the switch to managed code would I be able to do this with the third party (QT) libraries? That is it possible to take existing .libs and 'manage' them in my code? Are there any other caveats? Thanks, Daniel

Sorry this is so late I have been on holiday for the last week. Yes, you can link against release DLL's for debug versions of your code. But, you will not be able to step into the release DLL's using the debugger. Daniel

Is your Release Win32 DLL in the second sentence also your code or are you using a Windows DLL? If it is your code can you recompile using the debug configuration? If you are using a Windows DLL use the analogous debug version under 2003. Daniel