Hi Gary, I've inserted a few comments below that I would like your input on, if you get a chance...

>I suppose that if you take any development platform and implement a poorly designed and architected application, you will end up having to re-write it.

I haven't been in development very long and I haven't done a lot outside of .NET. Do you attribute the poor design and architecture to people learning the .NET way to do things? Is the .NET way to do things really that different than other ways? I understand the disconnected data is a newer concept (I think), but to me it seem if a developer uses fairly trivial OO principles then they can have a very manageable architecture.

>You can run any .NET 1.1 code in 3.5, no problem. The same is clearly not true the other way.

I didn't realize that this was the case. Are you talking about opening the 1.1 code in VS 2008 and having it convert it to 3.5? I know you can open projects in 2008 and target the 2.0 framework.