How to Develop Windows Applications

I suggest you learn C# and WPF. For that you will need Visual Studio.

You can use C# for developing a windows based application.

For that you can use Visual Studio IDE.

C# provides a large set of classes for interacting with the windows OS.

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If you are a newbie to the language then you can read tutorials and make a basic understanding and then keep on looking for projects.

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Microsoft Visual Studio Expression Edition are best tools to learn and FREE Windows Apps like Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition

Languages to learnC# for Front End

SQL for Backend

ADO.NET for Connectivity between these tow

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