Microsoft's .NET Platform

During the early announcement of the .NET initiative, Bill Gates said that he was betting the company on this technology - Good Bet. That's why I've been developing .NET applications exclusively since November, 2000.

Over the past several years of client/server database application development, I've seen the ever-rising cost of creating custom software. Despite the promises of each new development tool or programming paradigm, in the real world we all know the cost of creating custom software can be prohibitive.

Even while .NET was still in Beta 2 release, it was already in use on the Web by several large companies, and thousands of developers like myself. Microsoft's .NET platform is now in full production. I've been creating ASP.NET web applications in C# for several years now, and I can honestly say I've never before seen a software development environment that represents a forward leap quite the magnitude of .NET. This is just my opinion; but, with that stated, I hope you understand my passion for programming and especially how I feel about Microsoft's .NET Platform.