If I had my choice, I'd do it in Smalltalk...So what? Apparently you don't have a free choice, but are constrained in that you need, as you put it earlier:
We don't want to risk developing with Microsoft beta softwareDunno if youy knew this, but Delphi actually is neither Microsoft nor beta software.
and we are stuck with .Net because all the developers here want a quick, easy GUI builder.Which is exactly what Delphi is.
Well, except that you aren't stuck with em-ess-dot-net if you use Delphi; it's a quick, easy GUI builder for both .Net and regular Win-32 apps.
So what exactly was your excuse, again, for pretending that it doesn't exist?
Just wondering, you know...