Where should a C# programmer go besides the web?

Question

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Due to the complicated situation at my current job, I began to browse sites with vacancies for the position of a .Net programmer. Everywhere (with a very rare exception) ASP.Net is in the requirements, i.e. it implies the development of web applications, which I have absolutely no soul for. Therefore, I want to ask the respected community: how popular is development in C # for the desktop (the same Windows Forms) now?

From local (Novosibirsk) companies, I found one outsourcing firm. Some time ago there was a vacancy in DoubleGIS, but it is already filled. Is it the same in other cities?

Answer 1

Now Windows Forms == WPF, no less.

Answer 2

A friend of mine found several vacancies specifically for desktop applications, looked like interviews and got a job. City - Petersburg.

Answer 3

There is also Silverlight (web or WPF, to choose from), XNA (most often, games). Moreover, both can be used for development under WP7.
In Saratov, for example, there are 2 large companies developing WPF applications (EPAM, Mirantis).

Answer 4

There is also Unity3d. In Moscow, someone makes games on it for the web and for the iPhone. Pretty fun.

Answer 5

Heh, I didn't lie either. And now I think the web is actively developing, everyone is coming here. It is fashionable youth INTERESTING. Ok, let's say the layout is boring and routine, typical sites are also not fun to sculpt. But Google can also be said to be a web service? those. in fact, the front-end is just a small piece. And now desktop applications are mostly corporate software. It means a big project, many man years, open space, dress code, a cog in a huge mechanism.

Answer 6

maybe it didn't start there? We are writing a corporate web application. I didn’t even deal with the UI with its HTML, only the client part: bases, logic, web services.
Another option is to write for windows Phone 7 or games in general.

Answer 7

Or Web or DB.