I'm attending this years VSLive conference in Las Vegas, looking to improve my knowledge of .NET and to get a better idea of what is possible with it.  We're still on the fence for rewriting TIP's application suite in C#, so I'm hoping to get some help in clearing the vision for our collective future. One of the big issues we face is that TIPQA is a complex and feature rich Win32 software application, its one of the strengths that our end users like.  We have to be concerned with 'dumbing down' the application too much.  If we were to convert the UI to your standard web based wizard style of app, IMO it'd kill us, some of our main competitors have chosen to go that route and thats one of the reasons we're beating them when we go head to head for potential customers.

One the flip side, some of the negatives we face is the stigma of using Delphi (wish I had $1 for every time I've heard "Borland may not be around much longer" over the last 15 years - I'd have a nice bankroll for playing some blackjack while I'm here!).  It's kinda sad that after so many years of providing such a powerful Win32 development tool there are still people that just don't have a clue what is possible with Delphi.  Oh sure, it's not nearly as cool as telling everyone you're developing something in C# and .NET 3.0 using VS2008 Beta, but damn it - it's a hell of a RAD tool to develop win32 apps, second to none.