.NET is not tied to IE in any way... You'd find more javascript reliance than .net... .NET is tied to IIS pretty tightly, but that's more acceptable.

Just to add in case its not clear... I already have the address of course. I'm looking at how to geocode a coordinate. What I'm trying to do, is map that address (location) to a region or area on a map that may or may not be customized. So let's say we break New York City into Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island and Harlem. Which of these areas does the location fall into? Thanks.

I imagine people were having these same types of discussions when we maxed out: electromechanical, relay-based, vacuum tube, and transistor based technologies. The problem is that Integrated Circuits are over. We'll make the jump... Parallel computing is fine, and certainly useful, but one day soon (er than you think) you will have 1 core that is doing 100 PetaFlops with no heat consequences. And if you still wanna put 100 of them on a chip, that's fine too.