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Here's the situation:

I need to develop a desktop tool that will take in an input from Oracle (text) and it's output is a print of a layout generated by that tool.

The tool needs to be fast and able to print easily and not much extra software required on client PC's which ALL run Windows.

Now i've studied Java, PHP in the past however I don't want to use PHP for the Desktop App and I have my doubts about Java in regards to Printing and developing the GUI.

It seems to me like with C# I can develop the GUI easier and faster, and most PC's have a lot of the tools required for the GUI in the OS (.net framework).

A tool like NetBeans helps, but more often than not the GUI design is either broken or shoots ac开发者_如何学Cross the screen when I make a simple change.

So now I'm thinking about starting in Visual C#, however I would like to get your opinion.

And from my past VERY short .NET programming experience, I can still remember that deploying over the internet is easy as well, with JAVA I've had some issues with that as well before I got it to work.

So in short:

• Windows environment
• Lot of GUI design
• Fast app that runs on client Windows PC's without much 'extra' software installing
• Easy print programming

THANK YOU!

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My preference would be C# or VB.NET with Windows Forms. WPF is also worth looking at, and will give you the most modern UI, but it has debatably a steeper learning curve attached.