Hi All, I develop plugins for graphic apps. So far I used Visual Studio 6.0 also because it was the tool of choice for the SDKs of such graphic apps. Now some vendors have moved their SDKs to .NET So far I only heard bad rumors about the "opennes" of the code that the .NET IDE produces and on top of that I don't care to be net-ready or anything of the kind, I only need to process pixels. At risk of sounding naive and ignorant my questions are: Is there an independent and reliable source where I can read more about pros and cons of using .NET? When is really necessary to use it and when is only trendy or redundant? Is there a way (or secret recipe) to turn .NET into Visual Studio 6.0 or something close to it? Thank you.