In short, it's so hard because he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. He's just googling and doing whatever the first hit tells him. You could have started wi

In short, it's so hard because he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. He's just googling and doing whatever the first hit tells him. You could have started with Winforms nearly 20 years ago and you'd still be fine. You could have started with WPF about 10 years ago and you'd still be fine. Yes, MS tries a lot of new things, and a lot of them fail. But as for the things that don't fail out of the gate (Winforms, WPF, ...) you can stay relevant for literally decades. I've installed every version of VS since VS6 without a problem. If you have memory corruption bugs, I'm quite convinced you have something else to blame.