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Free Ebook on C# Programming
christophw writes "The programmers of SharpDevelop (better known to the /. crowd will be its sibling MonoDevelop) together with the publisher Apress made the book Dissecting a C# Application - Inside SharpDevelop available as a freely downloadable PDF document (no, no registration required). So if you want to judge for yourself if one can build an application of scale with .NET (or Mono for that matter), you now have a 500+ pages book for the holiday reading season (or the virtual bookshelf)."
Have you used .Net? it is actually quite decent, and if you really need libraries it is possible to make calls to windows dlls. Perhaps you should give it a try, its not just a Java clone. When it matures a bit it will be an excellent way to achieve cross platform applications.
Without working in .NET for more than a couple months, with an open attitude, you can't really have a credible opinion. Just because it's Microsoft, you'll get the people who are automatically anti, and then you also will have people who are only Microsoft that will think it's gods greatest gift. Fox example, C# has some nice features such as using delegates for events vs. having to implement the observer pattern in java. But then you'll also have somebody who doesn't know about the SOAP toolkits in Java that can build WSDL proxies just like the .NET utility does. More than anything, it's all opinion. Use the right tool for the job. If I'm going to write a web service, I'll take an ASP.NET web service any day. If I need to parse a huge file, give me Perl. Can't all languages just get along!!!