This was "gripping" - I haven't been a developer in ages, but I was intimately familiar with the .net 1.0 (and beta/pre-release) and 2.0 ecosystem. At one poin

This was "gripping" - I haven't been a developer in ages, but I was intimately familiar with the .net 1.0 (and beta/pre-release) and 2.0 ecosystem. At one point, I was shouting "gacutil" at the screen, until he got there eventually :-)