Report about the ECOOP 2003 workshop WS 03, “.NET: The Programmer’s Perspective”. Much of the push behind Microsoft's new .NET technology has been directed at such end-user applications as Web Services, but .NET also provides, through the ".NET framework", a set of tools and facilities of interest to software developers. This workshop had been set up to review pros and cons of the .NET framework as seen by programmers. Seven topics were discussed in much depth based upon pre-selected contributions of participants, five of which can be found in subsequent articles in JOT. More topics were shortly touched during the workshop discussions. 1 OUTLINE OF THE WORKSHOP The workshop took place on Tuesday, July 22, 2003. It was a full day workshop.