Programming a simple GUI
 

Hi everyone,

A long time ago, I created a product submit forum so that our company could easily send me information on what products should be added or removed to our website. It was made in C#.

Since we haven't used the program yet (The website is still waiting to go live), the program has been sitting around, and I've lost the sourcecode (Windows crashed, lost my Visual Studio express project files), and the current .exe I have doesn't work properly.

What the program does is have the user fill out a simple form, then e-mails the contents of said form to me. Attached is a photo of the entry forum. I'm planning on creating a newer more revised version of the program, and I'm wondering if I should do it in C# or something else. C# was working initially, but I've had a lot of problems with the Visual studio express (and for some reason, I can't get Visual Studio working). The target platform for the application is Windows.

My question is, is there a better suited language to program this in (ex. Quicker to build, easier to maintain, no need to install additional frameworks on machines)? I'm thinking perhaps C++ and a toolkit such as Qt, but would that be more difficult and time consuming?

Thanks all :)

I think it would be the quickest language to write this in.

here's a suggestion that would make this even cooler. instead of having it email you, have it put it directly in the database and the site will update itself dynamically. instead of you having to receive the email and then manually type it in the database or put it on the site or however you are doing it.

oh and i would use c# or vb .net if it were me, but its up to you how you want to do it.

Yeah, I thought of doing it this way, but the only problem is that I need to manually verify all of the content that is being added first.

Use C# and use SharpDevelop for your C# IDE. Since you are having trouble with Visual Studio. I think it's great and very productive and best of all, FREE! I develop my C# program using SharpDevelop.

Here's a link: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/

I agree with the others, stick with C#.

As reggaeton_king mentioned... SharpDevelop is a good alternative to Visual Studio (its limited to vb and c#).

Stick with C# and use SharpDevelop, Visual Studio is over rated, and if you dont want to program in .Net 2.0, then get one of the older versions of SharpDevelop, i think they still have the .Net 1.1 version of SharpDevelop on their site. Just google SharpDevelop and its either the first or second link.

I provided a link to the SharpDevelop download page in my previous post.

Ah, so you did...

...how are we supposed to know you didnt add that after i posted?!:eek:

I saw it there..