C#? I don't like the whole .Net framework. I spent a few weeks and developed an application that uses a datasource object with a datagridview, connects to the internet to download files via multithreading, stored and parsed data in a CSV file, and loaded PDF files into a webbrowser with automatic resizing. I've subsequently been working on an application which involves storing data in CSV files and reading that, but needing to maintain associations of strings with unique identifiers. Why a CSV? Don't want to have to deal with having clients installing SQL Server 2005 and CSV is a good format, though not natively supported in any regard by .Net

During that grueling process I discovered:

1) The DataGridView object doesn't give you the same event options in the last row.
2) Creating a drag-and-drop feature within a listview is extremely difficult (yes, I did accomplish it).
3) The multithreading methodology was fairly complicated and took me quite a bit of time to grasp including the concept of delegates (which I conceptually reduced down to a wormhole between threads).
4) There was no relatively easy way to just display data in a table which is sortable.
5) To associate data with a unique identifier for usage in dropdowns, listviews, etc required creating an ArrayList of objects with ToString() overloaded -- you can't use Hashtable either! -- and dereferencing the passed objects in order to access them (I had to do that for drag-and-drop between listviews -- just find a tutorial on the web on how to do that!)
6) Dereferencing objects so that the compiler would compile could take just short of forever as you go down through the perverted hierarchy of encapsulated data.
7) And, I could build the same application in PHP in 1/10 th the time with better widgets (web widgets) which weren't buggy and maintained data association while having substantially easier access to data storage in a highly-optimized fashion.

I thought that I'd just switch over the VB, but MS is very excited that it's just as complicated to use as C# b/c of the .NET framework. In short, C# and the .NET framework offers little advantage over a web application (only thing I can think of is storing data locally, but it'd take less time to configure a computer to run a webserver using XAMPP!) and yet it takes substantially more to create a less elegant interface.

I have just one more reason to despise Microsoft, it's programmers, and all that company represents.

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