agreed, .NET is nice on complex problems, it kicks you in the crotch and steals you wallet when you just want it to go from A to B doing something simple, like controlling a plant system.
I have to say, I dont get the problem here, theres no multitasking, your just writing more convoluted code thats going to be executed in order at the end of the day, just like a loop. Its nothing more than timesharing between program items.
if you like the netthingie great, but there is more than one tool in the shed, and they all have their benefits. I personally have an arsenal of controllers, and I am not going to use my 800Mhz Vortex86 to blink a LED, nor am I going to use my arduino as a image processor.