How to proceed with learning to code Windows desktop applications?

[I Lindström]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 12:30:36 UTC, rjframe wrote:
>
> VS release builds compile to native now by default; for easy 
> Windows programming, you really can't beat C# and drawing the 
> GUI (Windows Forms, not necessarily the new stuff). If the OP 
> wants to learn what's needed for more complex GUI tasks (like 
> for most non-simple applications), learning to build a GUI from 
> source is kind of necessary though.
>

I've been looking into C# and VS2017 today along with VisualD. 
Reading through all this it looks like the simplest path is to 
learn C# and VS and go from there. I've found a pile of courses 
on LinkedIn that seem to build up to what I need. What makes me 
sad is that I have to drop D for at least the time being.