Anyone successfully moved from windows app dev to web developer?
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Can anyone here offer any advice, having successfully moved from developing windows apps to web development? I know it's an old question, but technologies change. I'm currently using C++ MFC / C# win forms for a thick client app. There's nothing similar locally only web jobs, so I'd be in trouble if this company went under.
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Can anyone here offer any advice, having successfully moved from developing windows apps to web development? I know it's an old question, but technologies change. I'm currently using C++ MFC / C# win forms for a thick client app. There's nothing similar locally only web jobs, so I'd be in trouble if this company went under.
Yes. My team are equally capable in desktop and web forms development.
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Can anyone here offer any advice, having successfully moved from developing windows apps to web development? I know it's an old question, but technologies change. I'm currently using C++ MFC / C# win forms for a thick client app. There's nothing similar locally only web jobs, so I'd be in trouble if this company went under.
I would start playing with web development at home. It is easy enough to get a website setup and running on your own to start learning it. I have moved from Windows apps to Web and back to windows apps depending on the job. I personally would start with web forms and ASP.NET to get going and work on in my spare time.
Steve Maier
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Can anyone here offer any advice, having successfully moved from developing windows apps to web development? I know it's an old question, but technologies change. I'm currently using C++ MFC / C# win forms for a thick client app. There's nothing similar locally only web jobs, so I'd be in trouble if this company went under.
I was doing Windows desk top apps using C#.NET before moving on to ASP.NET apps. The big difference to initially get your head around is the 'disconnected' state of the web page from the server and the 'life cycle' of the web page. Plus the application domain model is very different. Once you learn that, the rest is very similar!