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@blowdart: only in the name of testing.  YES YES  YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

@Charles: My suggestion would be to give the original poster up to a month beyond the date of the latest post. A flat simple cutoff.

@Charles: This didn't answer the question of whether it was rude.  So I'm marking your response "Marked as ANSWER".

Last time I checked, and that has been a while, stackoverflow penalized _____ (had newbies here but not really just newbies).  The old expression "there is no stupid question, only stupid people who don't ask questions" is in conflict with stackoverflow.

@cbae: Here is an example where marking as answered was more than gracious to the OP.  Cheevo granted.  Check out the marked as answer datetime compared with the posts.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/a1f5a2db-f0b1-47ae-83d1-c8d422874d48

Posting to the MSDN forums and being in the understanding and proving phase related to a post and along comes a moderator who marks the question as answered. Arggg. Is it just rude to mark someone else's question as answered or is it just me?

@myefforts2: Add As Link. Awesome. I've always wondered where that was in the IDE.

ah. so you still want the benefits of the shared interface but don't want the separate dll for the interface.  seems like the proj file could be tweaked to do that.

    <Compile Include="..\SomeOtherDir\ICommon.vb" />

EDIT: "tweaked" is a little vague.  add a new line similar to the above in the proj file that makes sense for the specific relative relationship between the projects.

I'm not sure who alexkai is but the following seems the simplest:

Protected Sub DisposeShapeContainer(ByVal AShapeContainer As Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.ShapeContainer)
    If AShapeContainer IsNot Nothing Then
        If AShapeContainer.Shapes IsNot Nothing Then
            AShapeContainer.Shapes.Clear()
            AShapeContainer.Shapes = nothing
        End If
        AShapeContainer.Dispose()
        AShapeContainer = nothing
    End If
End Sub

@kettch: Was updating some connection requests on linkedin today and paolo's profile popped up on the right.  Checked it out and he has a new home recently.