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Ah, a Fortran Reference, Clearly.
LOL
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I think there are a lot of us here who are primarily desktop developers (although I occasionally stray to the dark side).
However, I am dying, as we all are. "None of us are going to get out of this alive".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is always 100% fatal.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Well, we old folks code instead of surfing the web, except when it is Compiling
Me doing C++ desktop development.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Slow Eddie wrote: It does seem to be primarily aimed at, and populated by, web application developers.
When a man only has a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. By now we have countless 'veterans' who think that programming must be so clumsy.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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in a way I like it, you see all of the challenges the web folk have to put up with, data security, data compliance, platform disparity...
coding nice little in-house apps or single-platform-single-user tools, none of that matters as much, just common sense, locking up the database/tools so they don't break it etc. it's good to see all the crap us deskies don't even have to think about.
OIOW, I read it because it reminds me why I DONT go down that road.
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You and me both!
All of my paying clients run desktop apps.
there's a lot to be said for age and experience...
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Slow Eddie wrote: the Daily News
I can see how that's primarily web based because that's where all the news is.
Cloud, Privacy, GDPR, data breaches, new (international) laws, new frameworks... All web.
And that's because the web is still growing and billions of people use it daily.
Slow Eddie wrote: the Lounge
Lots of web developers here, no doubt, but I still see regular posts about tools and hardware, C(++), Raspberry Pi, WPF and lately even some parser stuff from codewitch, although WinForms not so much anymore.
And of course the standard complaining about Mickeysoft 
That said, you are a dying breed 
Perhaps you can check Reddit for topics on desktop development?
I don't use it myself, but I know it has pretty much everything (for example: reddit.com: search results - desktop development[^]).
Reddit has the added bonus that when you're done with desktop development you can continue checking out the x-rated content
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i like how I'm now just the codewitch to you.
hey, i write winform apps - tiny, single form demos of my libs!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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i hex everyone. it's my way of saying hi.
i even hex my coffee to 24 bits - 0xC0FFEE to give it an extra jolt. Cursed and black as sin.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Thanks. It's close, the bitching part anyway.
OK
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I don't do that Web crap either.
And don't assume that Web and desktop are the only options; Web is just another form of desktop app.
Internal applications. Generally automated background movement of data from place to place. A lot of database work. Folding, spindling, mutilating, repeat.
An occasional WinForms UI to keep an eye on things and be alerted to issues.
And lots of lovely little command-line utilities to make things easier and piss off the new kids who think there should be a GUI.
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Slow Eddie wrote: I would like to find a forum like Code Project aimed at Desktop programmers.
When browsing it will you be listening to music on your Walkman?
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No. I just fire up my Edison push on a new cylinder and listen to Al Jolson... 
Seriously, I started playing Rock and roll the day after the Beatles did their first TV appearance on Ed Sullivan Show in 1962. Ask your grandparents if they are still alive.
They stopped writing and playing music around 2000-2001. I quit playing in bands around 2005. (I got tired of the drama.) Watch the movie "The Commitments" to get a feel for it.
The Who and Yes are the best bands in my opinion.
Getting old is hell
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If I had to guess, I'd say the way business these days is a lot of coders are spending their days doing web development because everything, including applications more and more, are on the web.
I think a lot of coders contribute projects here that tend to reflect what they spend time thinking about, and if they work on the web during the day that might bleed over some.
I think there used to be a lot more desktop things here.
as for me I mainly code desktop or portable apps. Very codebases i contribute here these days are web based so I hear you and can relate.
just my two bits.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Slow Eddie wrote: It does seem to be primarily aimed at, and populated by, web application developers.
Not really aimed at, but the population has changed quite a bit since I joined. But I think that is just because the world has changed; so many more applications can now run on the web rather than the desktop.
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I'm a dinosaur along with you. I have done some web development, but I mainly do desktop technical software for engineering amd applied mathematics
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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there are lots of desktop code on CodeProject.
It's just that the desktop API discussions are a bit slow for the last few.. years?
At any rate.. behold (for example) WPF discussions here on CP!
Silverlight / WPF Discussion Boards
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I think you'd do well sticking with CP for the community and the C# Forum[^] where you can ask questions about Windows Forms. The only other resource I recommend is StackOverflow, where I end up when I'm googling for a solution to a problem. But for well-written full-blown articles, it's hard to beat CP.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I recommend is StackOverflow, where I end up when I'm googling for a solution to a problem
Sadly, that's the only time SO is useful. The couple of times I've tried to ask questions (after suitable due diligence), the response from the SO community was DOOM-esque.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Sadly, that's the only time SO is useful.
Agreed. SO won't even let me upvote an answer because I don't have enough points. Stupid. But I find the SO Google results extremely useful. They almost always address my (programming) woes.
/ravi
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Slow Eddie wrote: It does seem to be primarily aimed at, and populated by, web application developers.
While true, the CP folks strive to appeal to whatever interests their audience. At this time, a lot of that's web development. Desktop development still gets a fair amount of love here, though.
If they have any bias at all, it's they are pretty Microsoft-centric.Slow Eddie wrote: If we (desktop programmers) are a dying breed, let me know that too
I don't think we're in imminent danger of disappearing entirely. It's more a case that desktop apps aren't the universal tool they once were. There are lots of cases where they are the right solution for a problem.
For example, I don't really consider myself a "desktop developer", even though I write desktop apps that act as the UI for our equipment. Our applications act as the machine control panel, status indicators, and so on. I think of this as more a process control application with GUI bits than anything.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I don't think we're in imminent danger of disappearing entirely. It's more a case that desktop apps aren't the universal tool they once were. There are lots of cases where they are the right solution for a problem.
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I don't consider me a dinosaur and last time I did something for the web was in college.
Always been programming industry PLc or desktop apps.
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.
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