Top 10 Things to Be Thankful for in .NET

From    TSS   Author: by Paul Ballard

10

Multithreading in VB.NET - Now VB developers can know the pleasure of deadlocks,race conditions,and other seemingly unexplainable phenomenon. 

9

Compact Framework - Who says you need a PC to get an unhandled exception? 

8

ASP.NET WebForms - Jamming a square peg into a round hole was never this easy.

 

7

EnterpricseServices - COM+ without IDL; it's like a sports car without mudflaps.

 

6.

Object Orientation in VB.NET - For showing VB6 Developers that what they were doing before wasn't OO.Not even close.

 

5.

XML - Now putting anything between angle brackets guarantees it will become an immediate industry standard.

 

4.

ADO.NET - For disconnecting us from our data source whether we like it or not.

 

3.

Smart Clients - For making it possible for developers all over the world to use the words "smart" and "client" in the same sentence.

 

2.

C# - Java without the religious zealotry and the silly coffee references.

 

1.

Web Services - So easy to build in .NET that anybody can screw them up.