using Microsoft.Net;

Thanks to the pointer to Genghis, I know it well and it has provided us with a few useful code fragments. But my point was that MS should be building these parts into the framework. Any time we find code from a 3rd party that we want to incorporate into our product, we must review it, test it and possibly make fixes. This all takes time. In addition many of the solutions to the problems I've mentioned require full-trust. We're writing a client for deployment over the internet. Its low-trust or bust for us.

If MS had included these common componments in the first place, I would be doing real work and not backfilling their holes