DevOps stuff should be posted to /dev/null. :) But what do you mean by DevOps? I've heard rather different definitions. I guessing that the Application Lifecycle[^] forum would be most appropriate. Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

To test technical skills, I usually apply a small test, program something, for example in case i'm looking for someone with web skills, I give him the task to program a calculator in the web that uses javascript and a web service back end, if you know what you're doing it can be done in an hour, if you don't, it may take 2 hours; also I give them all the facilities, like internet access, so they can look for examples, or dig in documentation, curious to note, even given that, not too many are capable of doing something useful in the two hours limit. CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

Dave_6 wrote: Is there a way to quickly read the entire data array into a Single precision array (or Byte or Int16)? Use ReadBytes to get the data into a Byte array, then use the BitConverter class to convert each set of bytes in the array to an Int16 or Single element in your array. A quick and dirty example... Read a file containing 1,000,000 Singles and convert it to an array: Using fs As New FileStream("C:\test.dat", FileMode.Open) Using br As New BinaryReader(fs) Dim buffer() As Byte buffer = br.ReadBytes(fs.Length) ' A Single is 4 bytes long... Dim singles(1000000) As Single For x As Integer = 0 to 1000000 Step 4 sa(x \\ 4) = BitConverter.ToSingle(buffer, x) Next End Using End Using The nice part about this method is that you can modify it to conver the Byte array into any size values you've read by simply changing the Step value and using a different conversion method on the BitConverter class. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007