Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave in a remote part of the earth, Microsoft has inundated you with news of .NET by now. Microsoft’s marketing machine is working overtime, as usual, to ensure you don’t miss their latest and greatest product. If you listen to the Microsoft hype, it seems that they expect everyone to drop billions (trillions?) of lines of code and adopt .NET tomorrow. What the hype doesn’t mention is that adopting .NET completely means starting from scratch..