Hello,
I just watched the latest MSDN video about the 2.0 version of the .NET framework, and I would like to finally make public what I believe is the hidden agenda of the framework.
Microsoft wants you to believe that they are building lots of functionality into the framework in order to make your life easier. Hogwash! The purpose is to make THEIR lives easier.
Microsoft has concluded that one of the main problems with the Windows platform comes not from Windows itself, but from incompetent developers whom, they have decided, cannot be trusted with low-level API's, and access to the hardware.
Therefore, they are determined to remove as much of YOUR code as they can from the environment. They want writing a Windows program to become an exercise of simply piecing together large blocks of THEIR code.
Now, you may say, "So what? It does make my life easier," but I, for one, resent the message that the framework sends.
Thank you for listening, I feel a little better now.