It took awhile before it seemed that Microsoft was truly behind it. I tried looking into it when version 2.0 was released and it was a pain in the ass trying to

It took awhile before it seemed that Microsoft was truly behind it. I tried looking into it when version 2.0 was released and it was a pain in the ass trying to get it to work with Visual Studio 2010 Express. I was not a professional programmer at that time so I didn't have access to Visual Studio Pro. That experience turned me off to the language and I never really went back to look at it.