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Hi im trying to make a program and have some basic skills in programming anyways.... with .net can i make a Gui program im trying to make a remote program like vnc to monitor my kids activity's as well and pc stats and change settings if i need to with out getting off my computer or is there a better language i should learn about??
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crawforddavid2006

I'm pretty sure its possible to do it in .net, either .net C# or VB.net, but i dont know how to do it

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DaWei

Have you considered just downloading one of the things that does this stuff?

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Infinite Recursion

You can make this in C#.

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mattireland

If you've never done any programming before, you need to learn some more simple stuff before doing this. As Infinite Recursion said, you can do it in C#.

I recomend a book called Visual C# 2005 Express Edition in the "Build a Program Now!" series by Pelland. It's really good and goes right from the beginning.

PhilBon

like mattireland said it'll be best to start small. Most the time Visual Basic.Net is used for simple applications, nothing as complicated as vnc. It's primary use is for rapid application development. So if you want to do small things use VB.Net but as it gets more complicated you'll want to use C# or C++ or C.

mattireland

I like this PhilBon guy - I'm really new to these forums but he seems to talk real sense all over.

The other thing which I'd just like to add though is that as a devout VB.NET programmer that people do often underestimate its power. You can do a heck of a lot with it. He's got a point though, if you do want to do something powerful maybe start with VB.NET and then move onto a more complex language like C# or C++.

I started out with VB.NET about 2 to 3 years ago and then I went through the various stages gradually progressing until I got to doing some Direct X 9.0 in VB.NET and then I decided to learn something new (C#). However, because I'd learnt the basic principles of programming in VB.NET it was really, really easy. Good luck!