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You just have to ignore the MS haters. Most of them have never worked with the MS stack, so I take their arguments with little validity.

Actually, I find that most developers that rail against MS and their provided solutions have worked with the MS stack, but more importantly, they've also stepped outside the walled garden of MS solutions and found that there is a better way to do things. I'm one of these people. I've developed professionally using ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2005 and hope to never return.

"Because I know that I am using great products backed by a giant software vendor" I am in tears :)

LOL :)) I wonder why Vista users are not proud of using Vista then!? Isn't Vista a great product backed by the same giant software vendor!?

Voted down mainly because his arguments are just not compelling enough. I am a .NET programmer, btw (C# and Chrome).

Writing this:

"If you are not working with VS 2008, you can still see the source code by using Reflector"

this guy has revealed that completely misunderstands Open Source. It's not about being able to reverse engineer libraries and take a look at source code. It's about being free to make what I do like with source code. (Re)Compile, change, redistribute etc. Looking at code produced by Reflector or something is like liking ice cream through glass...

btw. does the .NET license allow reverse engineering?

I'm far from calling approach like above "typical" MS developers habit - I don't like quantifiers - but I've heard nonsense like above enough from MS developers to start thinking that there is something fundamentally flawed with MS developers...

You are pathetic if you need to state something like that.