Happy birthday .NET I have known you since the start. C# had me straightaway, I was so relieved to stop using C++ lol (just kidding, no I am serious). I remembe

Happy birthday .NET I have known you since the start. C# had me straightaway, I was so relieved to stop using C++ lol (just kidding, no I am serious). I remember the early developmentor crash courses we took, before embarking on an "enterprise corporate banking ecommerce platform". Talk about jumping into a new technology at the deep end. We hit all the issues, Dataset serialization across .NET Remoting, Reflection costs, assembly size issues, remembering to strong name the assembly sn -k, and the GAC. Oh and I will never forget the talk on how .NET Remoting WebServices and XML are the future, but at least we could fallback to TCP Binary when things got hairy performance wise! 15 years later its a hell of a platform now!