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Doesn't anyone do Desktop apps anymore?
Way behind the times in NOLA
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Yes.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Glad to hear it. I was thinking I was alone and the industry had moved on from me.
Faith in myself restored
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We do, I prefer desktop apps over web apps any day.
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Yes, I'm working on one now
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Glad to hear it. I was thinking I was alone and the industry had moved on from me.
I feel bette now.
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I'm rewriting an winforms app I wrote several years ago in wpf. I've not been able to devote a lot of time to it though.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Good for you. I guess?
Uncle Ed
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Been 9 months totally remodeling a house we bought, been a major job.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Tell me about it! In my 48 years of marriage I have remodeled 3 different homes, 2 in New Orleans and one in Charlotte, one of which I am living in as we speak. And I acted as the general contractor, using various subs to build oue "Dream" home, which I wish now that I had never left.
All of this, of course while working 40 to 50 hours a week trying to build my business, and raising a family. 
BTW: I got to meet Jimmy Page once. It was after Led Zepplin broke up. If you leave out the lead solo, I, like almost every other Guitar player of my era, can play "Stairway to Heaven". 
Never let your wife buy a house when you are not there to defend yourself.
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Slow Eddie wrote: I got to meet Jimmy Page once
Awesome, always really liked their stuff.
It's a good thing this house was structurally sound because the rest has been replaced, upgraded, taken to the dump or refinished (wood floors).
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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I'm having a WPF App that I'm thinking of rewriting in winforms...
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Only console apps! 
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Displaying my ignorance, I have no idea what one is, how to create one, or what it might be used for, in a commercial sense.
Can't know or learn everything
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I have a console program (I refuse to call programs/applications "apps") that downloads spreadsheets from Sharepoint at night. No GUI. They are used to feed a desktop program that tracks/reports quotes. IMO, Office addins are not for the faint of heart.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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What's the difference between a "console" program and a regular Desktop program? Is it more secure?
BTW You are just a youngster, I'll be 72 next week,
Old age in not for sissies.
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No GUI. In my case, it is the same crappy spaghetti code otherwise.
Age? Wrongola. I have you by 15 years.
But you are correct, not for sissies. "inside every old person is a young person wondering what the elephant happened!"
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'm impressed! I hope to have your mental acuity and stamina when and if I ever get there. 
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. - Neil Young
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Not to worry, "only the good die young". 
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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In that case, I'll live 'till about 206.
And the boys do the boogie-woogie on the corner of street. - Van Morrison
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So... a cron job?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Yup. Weekday evenings.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Here[^] is a description.
One of the project types in VS is "console application". It uses no "Windows" stuff (e.g. mouse input, graphics, menus). Just like *nix systems or a Windows command prompt window. Not as user friendly or sexy, but appropriate if you don't want to support a GUI on multiple platforms or if your code is intended for systems that may not support anything other than console applications.
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One of my last console app was a data format translator called from two different desktop apps. One in our hands, other one not.
Due to politics (the other app was an external third party) it was easier to make it this way instead of a DLL. No need to hand out anything, just a table with possible parameters and the valid values.
They just called the app with a couple of parameters and I read the args in my main to know what to do later on, once executed... exit.
That would not be a good project for a desktop app.
Another usage... background services or many other staff that doesn't necessarily need a GUI (none or very few interaction with the user).
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 3-Jul-21 13:48pm.
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I only do batch files but PowerShell is my new threat.
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