ABOUT THE SPEAKER Carl Franklin has been a leading figure in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons and helped create the first Web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. Carl cohosts a weekly talk show on his Web site for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! He is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut. SESSION DESCRIPTION You might think you know what an object is, but do you really? Things are not really as they seem in this interesting session that explores the effects of casting, shadowing, overriding, and other OOP mechanisms on objects, and how you can easily be tricked into thinking one plus one does not equal two.