*Looking for some Answers*

[Jmacp]

Woah VB 2005 is taking off.

If anybody could answer these questions before 3pm GMT, would be great.

• 1. How come the decimal type uses 16 bytes whereas the double only uses 8 bytes although the double allows for much larger numbers ?
  
• 2. Is OO programming overrated, it is just somebody’s abstract idea on things, VB 6 must be regarded as being at least 50% OO due to the fact that the objects are just classes of methods / properties / variables etc ?
  
• 3. So the .Net framework is completely independent of the win32 API - if so how do you call / declare a function / sub from a non-framework dll ?
  
• 4. Could the framework essentially being seen as a mini OS ?
  
• 5. How do VB 2005, C# and managed C++.NET compare to say VB 6 , C++ and Delphi in terms of speed, you have this extra MSIL that .NET has to compile to first before its compiled to x86 language, so does this slow things down much if at all ?
  
• 6. Is saying Ctype(value, Datetype) the same as the shorthand version etc, Cdbl(), Cint() , i.e i'm not missing anything here. ?
  
• 7. If you had an Integer and wanted it converted to a string, would you,
  
  

  CType(MyInteger,String)   <--/-->  CStr(MyInteger)
   
  versus
   
  Convert.String(MyInteger)

  ?

Cheers for any help!