Visual Studio 6, when you could drag and drop your UI, double click elements to code what they do, and all of the generated code was human readable. I'm not sure we'll ever get a development environment designed to put together software that quickly again with all of our modern expectations for design, mobile friendliness, etc.
Well, you can still do that in Visual Studio 2017 with Windows Forms. Remember when when they tried to do the same with Web Forms? What a disaster. I suspect this may have been the reason they moved to declarative UI like WPF but I personally don't buy that approach. Then again, I work on conversational interfaces now where there literally is no UI at all except a textbox and a send button..
Yeah, I've done a good amount of VS2017, but WinForms is far from recommended these days, and I think VS6 was the height of easy, quick application development. I don't think anyone's come close to making something similar that holds up as well.
Yeah like 'basic web functionality'. Unless you're happy with a full page refresh every time you click literally anything, And please don't suggest the UpdatePanel as a solution..
