It’s funny how different this was ~10 years later. Visual studio was basically best-in-class as an ide (I think) and you could throw together a simple app prett

It’s funny how different this was ~10 years later. Visual studio was basically best-in-class as an ide (I think) and you could throw together a simple app pretty easily just using the mouse to design the form and writing functions in C# with a bit of google or just looking through the autocomplete list. But maybe that’s a bit rosy and if one wants something more complicated, it all drops back into win32 api stuff.