Mario,
I'm just putting the finishing touches on a VB.Net winforms app - and it's not at all "slow". Granted, more resources are required to run the app, but if you're target audience is using older hardware, you propably wouldn't use .NET anyway... (at least for WinForms apps)
>But in the end, you must take in account simply facts: .NET is slow in >desktop
Al Williams
Anola MB, CANADA