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> Its a sweeping statement to say the least.

No. It's an exact statement based on the particular problem I'm solving.

> I know the VS IDE and such often prevent you doing dumb things/shooting yourself in the foot and its great!

I have no idea what you're talking about unless you think that VS.NET is "visual drag-and-drop programming". I've never used it as such.

> .Net is a just a general-purpose tool for writing certain kinds of software. That's all.

.NET is a higher abstraction of the win32 api with many many additional features. And that's an understatement.

And that "kinds of software" is more or less the entire Windows desktop market.



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