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DRHuff wrote: You only get one adjective here at CP!
That's only for the "member" profiles. "Professional" profiles get to pick two, and higher levels get to pick as many as they want.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The point was, as a VS "desktop" developer, you can target all those devices with one code base. The VS "package builder" handles the rest.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Well, and I'm speaking as primarily a desktop developer myself, HTML is one of the very few "common denominator" things that potentially works on anything that has a screen.
Now, I wish people in my area hired developers who know HTML/CSS/JS rather than having 20 years in the latest "framework of the week" that causes what should be simple Web pages or Web apps to weigh dozens of GB and to take 45 minutes to load on a mid-range phone over a 5G network.
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Nope, except as Greg said, console apps, mainly small utility apps.
At this point, I find web apps simpler to write, and no, I don't use any frameworks, just TypeScript. The HTML still gives me grief at times, but less though than my experience with XAML/WPF.
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Many corporate apps are still desktop apps.
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Many corporate app are web app these days, at least in Australia. Sad day for us who like to work on Desktop apps.... 
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Today I will be back in Desktop Development! 
I am using future tense because there was a snafu and I don't have a corporate account yet! 
And the PM show me my first week timeline, not going to touch real code for at least 4 days most likely.. But the time is nigh!
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I am gonna get them for yall, working at EA Games, motherlovers!
Going to make Frostbite editor so good, all game teams will overdo themselves successfully!
As a side note my Dev WM which I was just barely able to access at 4:30 pm today.. has.. 110Gb of RAM! Bazinga! 
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How on Earth did you manage that?
Envy is a terrible thing
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The funny thing is I did nothing at all!
I sent 2 job applications, changed my mind.. (there was some miscommunication at work and, well, I really shouldn't have left but it was unclear at the time), then a HR call me with an opportunity (not the one I applied for, I think) and I was like mm... not really interested but sure tell me about it.. and then she said EA Game in Melbourne, for the Frostbite team is looking for a WPF developer.. and I was like... really, sign me in!
Apparently they are on a hiring spree right at the moment.. and also had trouble finding anyone with WPF experience, lucky me I guess...!
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Neato!
Happy for you in NOLA
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Sure, most of my projects are desktop applications and that is not because I choose it, but because it is required from the clients. It's a long way from being dead
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I (mostly) only do desktop apps.
Without them, how else would one do web apps?
- Leonardo
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If you're talking about Win 8/10 style Apps, never, because I was (retired now) a firmware dev!
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A Home boy!
It's so built up now you wouldn't recognize it.
Go Skippers!
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You mean there are other types of apps ?
I enjoy re writing my JavaFX apps to Desktop apps and would be happy to share them with anyone
Notebook with spelling correction and SQLite DB
Pong and Breakout
Card Printer You can add photos to the front and back of a 4 in by 5.5 in note card and print text on the two inside pages Printing is done on a 8.5 by 11 stock
Label Machine prints address labels that are saved in SQLite DB on Avery 8250 that are 1 in by 2 5/8 in
you can print all 30 labels or select the label location to print at the desired location
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Rarely, I write mostly back-end code and other applications with no users.
But a few utility programs as well.
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All day every day.
Well most of the day most days, there's a few 'web' back ends around now as well as some Windows Services etc. But most of our software is WinForms. Struggling with what tech to migrate to though - need something that targets desktop as first class, but also want it to be both cross platform and cross-form factor (desktop to mobile and back agai etc) as well as play more nicely with touch. I guess what UWP tried to be, but failed. Now we're considering... react and the web shudder. Sigh.
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Good luck dude. I am struggling through my first website now, and I pretty much hate it. I am using DevEX tools and that helps, somewhat.
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Not only do I still write desktop apps, I have several still in production that are in VB as well.
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VB6 or VB.Net. I am currently worling in both.
"I like it, love it, yes I do" - Rolling Stones
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Actually I had a VB6 app still out in the wild up until about a year ago (sorta a victim to covid).. lol. But I didn't consider it active dev since I havent touched the code in probably close to 3 years. The remaining active projects are VB.NET. Until office politics kills them anyway.
I embrace being the red headed stepchild amongst my C, Java, and JS peers and all their new fangled interwebz and mobile stack. They try to get a rise out of me but I remind them the majority of their tools are still desktop apps. So I can't be that obsolete yet.
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