Question

I am currently deployed overseas with the military and am using my down time to keep up with my civilian education, which is about 1 year of computer science. I developed this rather simple batch program that functions to use taskkill to kill a specific .exe after a specified time, aka an application-specific Sleep Timer:
Blog post describing use of program.

However, I have never had any experience with a GUI program. I have seen some old Q&As here recommending using Qt to get started, but as things change so quickly in the technology world, would you all be kind enough to give me some fresh information on how to create a GUI out of this application?

Answer 1

I would use the Windows API + Windows Resource files + the C language to do it. ResEdit is a useful tool to edit resource files. Some handy links:

Windows Application UI Development
MSDN Library
ResEdit Home Page

Hope it helps.