Giving in to a Proprietary Language

[Gaijin]

As said above, but not only Java, if you know the structure of C++ you won't have problems learning C#.
A nice site I use to look up things for C# is Java2s...
http://java2s.com/Code/CSharp/CatalogCSharp.htm

And my Friends
http://www.csharpfriends.com/

C# is pretty easy to learn and after day of learning you'll be able to program various "advanced" things, well that's what Visual sutio is there for....