To me the major strength/weakness of C# is the libraries - if you have good libraries available and can get by with their limitations you can smash out code ama

To me the major strength/weakness of C# is the libraries - if you have good libraries available and can get by with their limitations you can smash out code amazingly quickly, and VS is a brilliant companion. However, for writing a desktop image processing app recently I found I was very quickly reaching the limits of the built in .NET libraries, at which point it was easier to drop into C for the heavy stuff and do C/C# interop. For vanilla business apps and integration I think C# is brilliant.