In case you haven't heard (or even if you have, IMHO this could never be spread too fast), .NET Framework 2.0 is out. This is a major improvement over the 1.1 Framework in terms of stability, and overall offerings including the ever-so-important generics support. You can download the x86 version of the redistributable here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5