Re:That Giant Sucking Sound... (Score 2, Insightful)

3. DirectX is already available for .NET. Check DirectX 9 SDK [microsoft.com], you can use it with C#, VB.NET, etc. There are sample projects everywhere.

Also available is DirectX for for Visual Basic. Yet for some reason I don't see many Visual Basic games being released.

If you want to do stuff like Diablo/Starcraft in .NET - as long as the user has sufficient memory I don't see why you can't.

On the other hand, if you could code your Diablo/Starcraft clone in C++ and halve the system requirements, why on earth would you dream of coding it in .NET?