Know, a few months ago i would have agreed the .net stuff was a waste of time.

But this aint a few months ago, and as ive been using it more and more, im actually beginning to get used to it and i'm eagerly awaiting .net V2 being released and hopefully a 64-bit version of delphi 2005 to go with my nice shiney new XP Pro 64-bit edition

I wasnt sure about the inclusion of Delphi into eclipse and VS as i dont like either of these IDE's at all, but then i was a firm hater of the new IDE for Delphi 2005, but after a few weeks of forcing myself to use grew to actually like it.