Areas to investigate, Educational Resources

The System.Component namespace which contains some JavaBean-like counterparts such as TypeConverters and Event Notification classes, such as EventDescriptor, PropertyDescriptor, PropertyDescriptorCollection.

How much of the JavaBeans feature set should be transfered into .NET. For example, VetoChangeListeners.

More advanced collection classes. The IESI Collections seems to be a good reference

Understanding Properties in Java and C#Good article on C# and Java Properites.

Daniel Cazzulino's blog on some classes in System.Component that can implement an IoC pattern.