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The best part is to solve a problem, selecting the right tools to create the best answer for the consumer. (including writing code, working with the staff/customer to come up with best answer, and making a better mousetrap)
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Yep! All i need to do - planning too, then going to the sweet, sweet code
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...about problems and solutions.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Playing lone wolf - or top dog in a small company is fun. Designing and coding and seeing everything turn out well from start to finish.
But working in a larger corporation with lots of egos, and lots of people arguing about what is the best way to do something, and pitching this framework or that framework, and trying to extract requirements from multiple layers of redundant analytic peoples...
Thank you for the pay check 
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Should have given the option Nothing at all. 
They don't pay you because it is fun, they pay you because it is the only way they can get you to do it.... 
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I totally agree with you on this. After 30+ years, I can't say I enjoy any part of it. I'm in just for the pay check. I always say if I won the lottery, I quit programming.
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thats so cynical & sad. i've loved coding ever since i first started in the 70's, and as the saying goes, if you enjoy what you do you never work a day in your life - id do it for nothing if i could afford it, but maybe that makes me a sad case as well, but if i didnt enjoy it id find something i did like - nothing worse than getting up in a morning thinking 'oh no, not another day'  . GL
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Not cynical, just realistic based on personal experience since 1977.
Also with Microsoft turning their backs on desktop applications, (which is what I do almost exclusively) in their desire to be like Apple, what used to be tolerable, if not enjoyable, has become sheer drudgery.
And don't get me started with ungrateful, miserly clients...
I am happy you have had a better experience lately than I have.
If you really like it that much and have experience with both VB6 and C# then we should talk....
Cranky old man
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Ive been through all the incarnations of Basic you can shake a stick at, as well as other Basic like languages. i used VB6 for over 10 years to write applications from the mid 90's and i sold over 600 copies of one particular app, & still sell the odd one occasionaly & maintain it, but since 2005 all my new apps use VB.NET. i know a tad of C# but not much. i too write desktop apps and know where your coming from re: MS as it sounds on the face of it we have had similar career paths regarding languages. Im based in yorkshire england, and if you want to talk then PM me please, id like to know whats on your mind as over the last 6 months or so things have been suspiciously quiet so if your thinking of unloading some systems id be happy to have a chat.
regards
Bob
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Desktop guy from Yorkshire here too.
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I have no idea what this is supposed to mean...
say what you mean... mean what you say....
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its a homer simpson quote, but i dont get it in this context either lol.
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Your title is a partial quote from Homer Simpson.
[
https: ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwRJ5IoKTmg)
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... seeing your application being used every day even after a number of years, and thinking : man! did I write this, and it still works!
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Mehdi Gholam wrote: and it still works!
And users still find it useful! 
/ravi
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Hell yeah! I wish this was on the list of options.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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True
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Agreed.
A long time ago, on an Air Force Base not too far away, I worked for a few years as a contract software engineer. None of the software I wrote during that period was used for longer than a few weeks.
I've worked commercially now since the late 80's, and I have applications written in the early 00's that are still in use and undergoing maintenance. That is satisfaction.
Software Zen: delete this;
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including "other" - writing articles about the cool tech used.
I suppose "most enjoyable" means picking one or two of the options that are the "most", but given how there are all these different phases of "developing applications", from requirements to maintenance, what is enjoyable changes in each phase, so I checked them all. 
However, writing unit tests was not on the list. I would not have checked that. 
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It's almost the same with me. (Minus the writing articles part)
But I do enjoy reading articles based around or that are applicable to development of the software of my company.
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CodeProjecting in between
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And learning new techniques, languages, etc..
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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