[preek]

My point being? You gave yourself the answer.

If I may quote: ".. were hotly contested features since 1.0" This was around the year 2k IIRC. They honestly took ±10 years to include basic features while claiming to have a businessproof framework? Yeah, maybe - for ex-Java golems who still have WinXP developing _and_ server machines. As we all know, those would be.. the real business guys.

As to the "other trumpeted features" - I can't recall any on the beforehand mentioned release notes. Maybe the "improved COM" support. Have fun calling Excel for generating your CSV files.

[sraybell]

This shows an axe to grind with C#, and not for the sake of C#. While you're information and insights were definitely interesting, I don't think that it really amounted to anything beyond, "Gimme a pony!".

That's just my opinion, though.