Good analogy, but I think that you might want to know how to understand how to build the basic house before all the tools are available. If you wait until the hammer and saw - then the chalk line, power saw and level - are there, others will already have the basic skills. They will have no problem using the new tools, which will just make their job easier. Nothing wrong with learning the foundations first.

>I'm sure that someone *can* do just about anything they need to do using .NET. But to many of us it still looks like it would be like using s chisel to build a whole house and we want to wait until it adds a hammer and a saw. Why is it so hard for you to accept that?