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Hey all,

I am designing a website using php and mysql. I want to design an application that runs minimised in the windows icon tray that will contact my website/database and provide information to the user about their account (such as the ebay toolbar does).

I am wondering, what would be the best language to develop this application in? Visual basic/java? anyone with suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also, would anyone know if this task would be hard? Any tutorials out there?

Thanks.