Attendees at the PDC I talked to had the same opinion. However, it appears that the C# team is not open to discussion on it.

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>Since I'm primarily using C#, I really hope they make this stuff easier/less "weird" to use (like VB.NET) before release. Some of the syntax they came up with is just plain odd. For example, why should a developer have to learn a slightly different version of SQL? That's going to be really annoying.