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What UI would you prefer? Given the terms "simple" I'd assume a Console-application. Then again, W95 would be overkill.
If it is some application that is fed data by the user and which is queried by the user, I'd go for a modern Windows Server and write an MVC5 application.
You're probably referring to dekstop apps though; in that case I'd recommend Delphi. Any version between from 2 up to 7 will be fine.
Since you said toolchain, I'm gonna assume you need a database. Question for you again, do you want a local database (as used in caching for example) or a multi-user database that can be queried from multiple locations by multiple users simultaneously? For a local cache I'd point to SQLite or MS-JET, for multiple users I'd go for Sql Express or Interbase.
Does your toolchain need to include reporting? If you already chosen a local database, than Access would be a nice match. Otherwise I'd suggest a separation, an extra layer; create a system that returns the data in XML format that you want to base your report on. Next, create a report based on that dataset. Decouple your reporting-engine from your application 
Any tool I missed?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I hear Win 3.1 is pretty awesome too. You should try that.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Win 3.1
How-To-Geek published an article on installing it to a VM (using the original floppies would you believe) only this year. Am I missing out on a trend?
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UIs have gone retro, so I suppose it only makes sense to have the OS be retro too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Member 9082365 wrote: How-To-Geek published an article on installing it to a VM (using the original floppies would you believe)
A few years ago, just for kicks, I installed it in a VM using image files (.img) of the floppies. The installer detected them all and so didn't have to stop to prompt for the next disk.
Never during Windows 3.1's useful lifetime did I ever manage to install it that fast.
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Language? Bad! Very, very bad. Utterly foul and abusive!
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https://xkcd.com/349/[^]
An oldie but still sooo true.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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So true. It's 20 years that everybody just say "it doesn't work because you don't update your video card drivers" and each time I do I end up with one or more of the following
- fried videocard;
- black screen. Even re-installing the OS from CD (it was winXP) it loaded the fscked up drivers from the HDD. I did an installation by memory;
- what worked stopped working and the new stuff still didn't;
- non existing drivers for my video card.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Me: I'm having some trouble understanding your data model. The Foo in this table doesn't match the Foo in that table and there are bidirectional, implicit relationships between two other tables that have no referential integrity. The "BarId" on "EntityA" seems to match with "BarId" on "EntityB" but there is a "Bazinga" on "EntityA" that matches a different "EntityB" where "EntityA.BarId != EntityB.BarId" These conflicts are making it very difficult to trust your schema and it is also very difficult to know which version of the database's facts represent our real business data.
Vendor: I don't see any issue. It appears you just have not been provided with clear details on how our data model works. You see, three plus five equals threeve.
Me: Beg pardon?
Vendor: Three plus five equals threeve. This is simple math.
Me: Three plus five is eight. There's no such thing as threeve.
Vendor: Are you trying to insult my intelligence?
Me: ...I don't think that's how math works.
[later]
Bean Counter: [Vendor] just informed me that you didn't know that three plus five is threeve. I thought you were an expert and I hear you can't even do simple math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/threeve[^] Just make it work!
Me: ...
"I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
modified 1-Dec-15 10:00am.
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Alaric_ wrote: Three plus five equals threeve
Surely you have heard of user Types, this is obviously a custom implementation of ThreePlusFive
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Alaric_ wrote: "I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
Don't do it, SkyNet is dark side of the force. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Alaric_ wrote: Vendor: Are you trying to insult my intelligence?
No, I wasn't trying.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Just placed an order.
The item was just under €20,- so I proceed to checkout, but last second I noticed the "gift wrap" option which I very much wanted.
So the checkout page loads and I have to pay an additional €2,95 shipping and handling.
Hit the back button, check the gift wrap for €0,75 and proceed to checkout again and... Apparently the shop has free shipping above €20,- which I now have with gift wrap paper
That gift wrap just saved me over €2!
It's the little things that count and this one just made my day 
I also thought we could use some nice stories with all these troubles going on (see post below)
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The people who determine these arbitrary limits are not very bright I've decided. It's hard to see how they stay in business!
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Sander Rossel wrote: It's the little things that count
Very true! I've made bad investment decisions (some decades ago) that cost me several thousand dollars, yet I take great pleasure when I'm able to wangle a 10% discount discount on a $50 item.
/ravi
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My sister once spent 20 minutes trying to wangle 5 baht from a Balinese vendor once, that was about 2c in those days. I think they both enjoyed themselves.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"The joy of wangling a bargain is only exceeded by the joy of returning a product (after a year of use) for a full refund."
--Ancient saying
/ravi
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There is a site that helps you do that.
I can't find it at the moment but you basically enter the amount you have shopped and then suggests items to add so that you get to the "magical" 20€ number.
Damn my memory, can't even remember where I saw the article about that site 
Tom
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- Missing iPhone back-up file. No solution yet reported.
- Windows 10 update borks networking - requires full OS re-install.
- VS2015 SP1 update borks itself - slash, burn, re-install. In progress.
- Developers to be replaced by AI. Hmmmm? Maybe not so bad, considering... 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Maybe. But since developers will be responsible for installing the AI I guess we'll never find out!
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You forgot the plethora of '... OTD'
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I installed VS 2015 update 1 and now can't run Visual Studio at all - it loads the IDE but the whole thing is un-clickable
So - looks like a slash and burn reinstall is needed.
(I think it is something to do with the android emulation so I'm going to unselect that and see how it goes...)
Update : Issue is caused by Parallels compatibility - message is "MUX: P8 - Could not access network location \psf\Home\Desktop."... fix detailed here[^]
modified 30-Nov-15 15:46pm.
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So I guess you're where OG was on Saturday? 
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The PC is loaded with a fresh Win 10 from ISO, Most of my software is re-installed and it seems to work fine, except my Wacom tablet which won't run the full width of one monitor at the moment, much less two, and I just remembered I need a printer, damn it!
It looks like the problem was a combination error with the upgrade: an Upgraded system (from 7 to 10) that includes a VM (VM Ware) deletes the entire network stack and refuses point blank to reload it. And the stability was badly affected by all this with the "usable life" of the system shortiening each time it booted. After a few hours it was obvious that it would be quicker to reload from scratch. I couldn't even restore from backup, because this would almost certainly have happened again in a weeks time if I had. I could thankfully restore all my apps, code, etc., so that wasn't a problem.
Next (after the printer - oh and a text editor, forgot PsPad) will be a full disk image overnight and I should be sorted.
There are times when I hate computers...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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