I’m lucky that I’ve had the chance to work on a .NET web applications. Only because I now know that it really sucks (even more than Java)! The problem is, that it’s too complex, so that ordinary web programmers don’t really understand it. And the code really looks like that. So many code that really does nothing “useful”. I am really sure that you can write the same in Ruby in 1/10 of the code. And it would even run much faster. And cheaper. Is much easier to maintain, because you can automate so many things that you hardly can in Visual Studio. Oh my god, who is using version control system with Visual Studio? Maybe I’m the only one? There’s no one by default, what a pitty. And the documentation is really bad! It took me 1 hour to find out how to simply add an Application_Start handler. My tip: Just don’t use it :)