Which opensource tool is easy and best for making Windows Applications

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Hi friends,

I am going to develop some commercial windows applications (mainly accounting softwares)
and, I dont want to use proprietary tools for it.
Which best opensource tool can be used for making windows applications?
Can anybody guide me ?

Posted 12-Oct-13 23:16pm

Yesudasan Moses

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pasztorpisti 13-Oct-13 12:01pm

There is no "best opensource tool" for making "windows applications". "Windows applications" is a huge topic in which different kind of programs are best written using completely different dev envs and languages.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-12T23:23:00

That's not really a question we can answer: it will depend to a huge amount on choices we cannot make for you. Specifically, it will depend on your choice of language - there is no point in us recommending a C++ solution if you only know VB!

As a general rule, for Windows applications, the major decision is easy: go with Visual Studio. It isn't open source (far from it) but it is free (in the Express editions) which is likely to be the motivation behind the desire for open source tools. And it supports a wide range of languages, so there is a good chance that the language you know and like is in there.

After that, you an select open source components to help, but the major choice you need to make is to pick a language!