Coming from a C++/C# background, one of my main frustrations with VB has been its lack of a true ternary ("?:") operator. In Paul Vick's recent post, he discusses the possible inclusion of a ternary operator in the next version of VB (9.0 - Orcas). Finally the IIF operator will behave like we C#/C++ (or javascript for that matter) folks expect it to. I'm looking forward to it… now if we could only get rid of those pesky line-continuation characters!