Hmm, interesting... Is there a rational for HTML + JS? Can it be shared? C# and VB.Net are full blown programming languages with frameworks to support them. JavaSCRIPT is a scripting language; which by definition is used to script and hold together other things. While useful, it's the other stuff that I'm interested in developing. Can you tell us why it's HTML + JS? What's the origin of this? To most of us who have written desktop apps HTML + JS means web pages. The confusion, I think, comes from the fact that desktop app developers do not equate web pages with a desktop app. There's a disconnect. Can anyone bridge the gap. Or is it just all smiles out there? :)

No. Because what you described isn't desktop app dev using js +html. What you are describing is desktop app dev using .Net wrapped in js with html software goo thrown on top. Most of the serious code will be written in .Net and js+html will be used as bandaids and bailing wire to hold the whole thing together. Does anyone remember programming in the original ASP (without the. Net part). So far all i've heard from the js+html crowd boils doesn to "it's new, it's different; we think it's so cool..." I haven't heard one reasonable justification for adding another layer of software goo between me and my user. I mean really, why would I want to add a nightmare of a language like js on top of everything else I've just worked on. More layers does not equal "cool tech" in my mind.