There is nothing wrong with ARC in my experience. It's easy to use and does most of what you need, what it doesn't do chances are you can write an EZ-Script to do it.

I'd try out ARC and see how you get on with it first, despite having experience in C# I don't think the ARC will disappoint. Think of it as driving a car rather than riding a bike, you can do both but driving a car (using ARC) is just so much quicker and easier.

With 8 years C# programming I would think it would be like " building the car or driving it" both ways can be satisfying depending on what your brain desires.

Dave

Cool, I'll start with the ARC and go from there. I need to walk before I run :-) thanks for the suggestions. I'll let ya know how it goes.