>>Oh just go with C#. Why fight it?
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>Yep, just drop pants and bend over. It's only Microsoft, and they never screwed developers up.

Well, MS screws developers over with some technologies, I agree- Silverlight, WebForms, windows phone, vb, vfp. But it's probably good to grab the best parts from the mess - C#, SQL Server, MVC, etc are the good parts imho. After all they did spend a billion dollars on R&D - some of it is bound to be pretty good if for no other reason than the high level of minds working on some projects.