[verinus]

funny thing is I don't think that the tools or libs are still far from perfect:

- WPF tooling is severely lacking in regard to databindings. - libs such as collection classes were far from java standards when release- there is even a pretty good OSS alternative: C5 - there is no standard for filepaths in .Net but even there a good OSS alternative exists: NDepend Path

but I see a lot of improvement in the last years: Rx, ReactiveUI, NuGet, FAKE and much more high quality OSS is beeing created.