Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
Well I can't speak to that since I've never used Delphi so I'd leave that to those who have experience with it.



Just wow....This is really getting old. "MS the big evil corporation"...You seemed like a reasonable individual until now. Do you and the other countless people spouting this have any clue how this comes across ? Think guys in tin-foil hats. MS is successful because they did more things right than they did wrong. .Net is one of those things they did right. If you ever used .Net you'd see why it is such a big deal. The .Net Framework itself is extremely powerful and their flagship IDE for development of .Net programs leaves little in wanting.
Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

You have never used, and I will guess, you never seen Delphi nor know its origins and thus do not know the origins of .Net. That greatness you give to .Net belongs to Delphi, what you are seeing is a copy of Delphi. File New... NT Service, Application, Console application, ActiveX library, Web Application, DLL Library, .. in neat little icons - sound familiar? Thats Delphi since its beginning. Anders Hejlsberg built Delphi, then MSoft took all the talent from Borland through offering huge sign on bonuses - millions - then .Net was started by Anders which came out to be a merge of Java and Delphi. I would really call .Net the Delphi version of Java.