Oh, you mean boxing? Because that is exactly what VARIANT does in COM and VB....

C# is Java with all the stupid sucked out.

I'm a lawyer but program for a living, if that tells you anything :D

1000 Mbps both directions using Google Fibre in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (sometimes faster, sometimes slower). Fastest I ever saw was over 1200Mbps.

Actually, that's where the problems begin. Lower and upper-case primitives in Java do completely different things.

For what it's worth, the C# style guidelines on MSDN say to use the lower case.

You aren't expected to learn independently until grad school.

Yeah, it is a given.

Thank God for that!

It's also possible that your psychic powers are not quite as good as you imagined, and that you impugned me with malicious motives that were simply never present. I was merely making an on-topic literary allusion, but you went all white knight trying to defend people who were never attacked in the first place to make you feel better about yourself at my expense. I also object to your claim that Clarke's Three Laws are obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's\_three\_laws

In what category do I place people who miss literary allusions?

Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic to primitives.

You seem to be retaining the C# coding style, single-file and all :)

As a professional programmer, you are responsible for the entire application. If it talks to the outside world, that includes how it communicates. The system administrator is responsible for the system he controls. If that system is insufficient, it is your duty to correct that deficiency. You cannot make this evaluation without being competent in best practices for everything your application does. Now, if you are a junior dev, you should have someone above you with this responsibility. But if you're a senior, it's on you.

Unless your group sells public API's for a living, your manager doesn't care.

I ended up getting so frustrated with it that I wrote my own contents search that used one thread per CPU core and one for the GUI. Was much faster than the windows search (that didn't work anyway).

Uninstall Fiddler and - this is important - WinPCap. I bet you've found an incompatibility.