... that's our job!"

Courts in the US (and possibly other countries?) have already ruled that knowing the owner of a car (e.g. via license plate) is not sufficient to issue a ticket for a violation. You have to ticket the driver, not the registered owner of the vehicle.

So there's further consolidation in the adware/bloatware removal market. One could say this might be a part of Avast conspiracy!

Aside from Visual Studio, there's also the open source project SharpDevelop. It's a IDE similar to VS and can compile for targets in .NET or MONO.

SharpDevelop homepage: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/