I’ve been charged with creating a little GUI launcher app to go on a CD which will offer the user some software and some videos. It’s not being aimed at particularly tech-savvy people, so it needs to be quite simple. I guess the real sticking point here is that it will be form based.
I would very much like the launcher to just run from an exe without having to install any .net stuff or have java installed. I know ClickOnce is fairly simple and I will fall back on it if necessary, but I thought it might be worth asking if there are any easy ways to do this.
I mainly program using visual c# these days, but have experience with java and c and I am a relatively quick learner, so feel free to suggest other languages.
Depending on the minimum target OS, you could possibly choose VB6, if it doesn’t affend you too much, because the VB6 runtime has been included in windows since Windows 2000. However, you need to stick to the included controls to keep things simple.