perkunas:
"What was your project anyway"
It was a Hydroponic controller it had to control water, temp, PH, nutrients, Lights ect.
All at the same time ie. multitask (something arduino cant do)
"You may be a c sharp wiz but everyone else is not."
C# wizard, no hardly, but most programers use and like C#, so its easy to get the help you need,
and believe me I needed lots of it. Actually I like visual basic, its what most of us stared with as kids.
That's going to be fun to play with.
You can certainly do this project with arduino but it's more of a personal preference to use or not to use multitasking libraries (I don't know if multitasking is supported by netduino hardware, such as task save-and-switch, privileges, memory protection etc.). You can easily use arduino to monitor all sensors and control all pumps if you want but you prefer the conceptual simplicity of multitasking. Fair enough.
Just a side comments of programmers being able to help, last time I helped my programmer friend fix his meat slicer, all the problem was that its fuse box was cheap and the cap fell out of the socket with the fuse and he didn't know or mentioned those were important parts of the machine. We opened the thing and tested every part and I traced the wire to a box and said, "Was there anything you didn't show me?" He then produced a couple of loose parts, being the cap and the fuse. Software and hardware people have been trained very differently. Despite that, I see good mix of both sides with arduino. You may be capable man/woman with hardware but you should hope your software people are too. Not long from now you will demand even more memory and faster processor speed since you do multitasking and visual basic, exactly what microsoft has been demanding.