Rick, you're not the only person that thinks this way.
http://www.angrycoder.com/article.aspx?cid=6&y=2001&m=10&d=2


>
>.Net requires a higher level caliber of developer than the current tools require. Yes, more is handled for you, but the entire architecture of the platform is much more complex and requires more code. If you're building distributed applications you need to know how it works - I don't care if you click on a button that says Add Web Reference - that saves me all of two lines of code in say VFP. But if it doesn't work then what??? In order to troubleshoot that problem you need to know that there's a proxy object that talks to the Web Service on the server via SOAP packaging up the messages.
>Think about the guy who doesn't know what to do when he tries to add the Web reference at the development site and tries to explain that to the person in charge...
>