Happiness comes from within.

Just because people tell you it can’t be done, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it can’t be done. It just means that they can’t do it.

The dream is to have a single programming model,

You can query pretty much anything. LINQ works with any collection you have in the .Net Framework today. It's a single programming model for data where the things you know in this domain just magically apply for another domain.

You can see it in the products I've built over the years?they strive to be simple. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

If you don't handle them, we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

The .NET framework was built really to support XML Web services.

Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).

The VB6 petition is the dilemma you end up in when you have a large installed base you're trying to move. There's no question .Net is a very productive system. The only way you can stay 100 percent backward-compatible is not to change your technology base.

I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.