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I've read in the past that default parameters in VB.NET are “bad”, but never saw an explanation.  Being a C# guy, I didn't really care to find out why since we don't have them.  BradA explains why.

Simply, the default value is compiled into the caller.  Yes, that's right, this is your worst versioning nightmare.