Windows Based Software: Starter

Hi -

we are a small php programming firm and are wondering how softwares for windows are done?? i mean we have a online php software which user's can install on their website... kind of a plugin for wordpress and we are trying to do a small windows utility that would connect to the website and fetch data.

Any tips on where/how to get started?? i really have no idea what language these are done in and how these are build up?

thanks

 

Hire a programmer who has experience writing Windows apps. Buy whatever compiler he uses. Give him a program spec. Turn him loose on the problem.

Or send one of your PHP programmers to school to learn Windows programming and a language he can use for Windows development, like C.

Windows development is very different from web development.

 

I think... hiring one is something i would consider as learning can be expensive.

 

Hiring someone will run you about $50k+/year. Or less, if you want to keep hiring cheap programmers until you give up and hire a qualified one.

 

Are you looking for software that you will install to fetch data or that many others will install to fetch the data? That makes a big difference with how much you have to invest.

 

Try to learn .NET languages, e.g VB.NET or C#. it's most popular languages for linking online data with windows software, using WSDL, JSON or another XML-based technologies.

 

@sarahk,

That's what I was trying to get out of OP is what they are actually trying to do. There is probably already software out there for what they are trying to do or other ways to do it.