hey guys i m just curios to know what is best . i just have learn vb.net which is rather easy and power full but its backwardness is it is not standalone. it requires Microsoft .net framework. i seen many of the best softwares like internet download manager. Firefox, vlc media player, Google chorme or any others are standalone and professionally coded among them 50 % of sofware can be open and seen by resource hacker. if i am not wrong they are build in c++ but i dont know how ?. is there is any way to do it just like from visual studio . just dropping buttons, images, combobox etc in form? i want to know how they can make it or what is the best for standalone software development ? thanks in advance