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>>I guess I'm different than most, but I'll accept some aggravation in the short term for the productivity gain I have when developing apps with .net. I've done a couple major apps and a compact app and find that the development time is not that much different. YMMV.
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>Don't get me wrong - I'm generally impressed with VS development interface and certainly impressed with the .NET classes (not including data handling). I've done several ASP.NET and a compact framework app using it and am fairly comfortable with it.
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>VS/MSDN help is badly broken and extremely slow, and they haven't bothered to address that issue which to me is a very important part of the VS suite. I'm curious to know when Microsoft intends to fix this since I pay for it.

Yes it is, however, you can google and find the same info much quicker. So there is no need to worry about that, over which you have zero control.