Oh lord, the With blocks.  DO NOT WANT.

Não sou o único com saudades do With/End do Visual Basic, lembram dele? Ficava legível e mais rápido.

Boy, I'm going to loose my coder status with this one...

I am also no lover of COM/ActiveX, but DANG there is a lot of software still out there using it.  And VB is still one of the fastest ways to slap together a quick and dirty DLL.  So I will admit to doing a few (little) integration pieces in VB6.  

Bonus: my manager was happy that we didn't have to muck with any of that .NET deployment mess.  (sorry, many/most machines still don't have .NET installed)

Only problem is that I needed a shower as soon as it was done.

Man, it's been so long since I've messed with VB6 I don't even remember what could be special about enumerations...

To me, the With block isn't anything spectacular and it seems almost like a code-smell...I mean, essentially it's method chaining, but without restricting you to methods since you can set property values.  So, if you wanted to do it in C#, you'd have to resort to Java-style coding for setting properties and then returning this every time.  Nevermind the fact that you are then communicating that the object is immutable (think NHibernate's Configuration object) when, if it were an entity, that's most-likely not the case.

I dunno.  Maybe that's making a mountain out of a mole-hill...