title: Senior WinForms developer with no ASP experience - legitimate chance at a Senior ASP.NET position?
body: <p>I would like to know from those in hiring roles and in senior ASP.NET roles, would you seriously consider a person like myself for a senior ASP.NET role?</p>
  
  <p>A bit about myself: I am seriously considering a switch from WinForms to ASP.NET.  There just do not seem to be many positions for desktop application developers anymore.  It's becoming a niche field.  In the pursuit of greater opportunities, I am trying to repackage myself as an ASP.NET developer.  Unfortunately, there is the obvious lack of professional experience that is a gap on the resume.  Seriously, the only real issue with losing my senior status is the paycut involved.  I couldn't care less about the title, but sadly, we all have bills.</p>
  
  <p>I could argue that there is a lot more to software development that knowing the intricacies of web development vs desktop-- there are issues of designing reusable code, design patterns, C# language features, database experience (another place where my experience is light), class design, professional maturity, and so on..  But I fear that these arguments will fall on deaf ears, especially in these times, when there are already so many experienced ASP.NET developers already out of work.  I can sling together a few simple web pages that hit a database and show the data, but this is far from a professional web site, I'm afraid.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit: 
  10 years update - Screw Microsoft and ASP.NET. You Suck!!! I left Microsoft stack shortly after this and my salary went up by 40%</strong></p>