[eitally]

I agree 1000%. I am currently trying to get my team to rewrite several WebForms apps using ASP.Net MVC. I am almost to the point of not allowing them to use the toolbox to create a single UI element, too. Autocode is crippling and encourages developers to stop thinking about what they're doing (or be afraid of overriding Visual Studio's decisions).

[koollegged]

It is definitely useful for a corporate career path, but there is a lot of development work, freelance and otherwise, for those experience in LAMP, open source, java, etc.

I agree about the autocode... I wonder about the repercussions on development in general. It is like sampling in music or those libraries that come with Reason...some use it to make original and compelling work, but that is the edge case, not the norm...