Good question. I was wondering the same thing too when I first heard that Microsoft had hired the former Borland Delphi guy Anders Hejlsberg to be become their lead C# architect several years ago. However, I quickly realized a good reason why those clever guys at Microsoft did it. You see, C# is very, very, and I mean very close to the syntax of Java. Therefore it is easy for Java developers to pickup C#. I have personally worked with several developers that have made the switch from Java to C# and they were pleasantly surprised at the ease of transition. To see the syntax differences for yourself I suggest you check out this excellent comparison website I found while searching on google. http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/WWW/java1_5_csharp_comparison.html[^] Thanks, Habeeb Live long and code proper!