I use a fanless ITX board with onboard processor with Win10 for Excel development and application maintaining: 4x2GHz and 8GB Ram with a used SSD. To keep it cheap I use a pico power supply - consider how much power you need. Here the sources from my notes (2019):

board 4x2,08GHz 50€
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Mitac-PD14RI-D-N3150-Intel-D2500HN2-Mini-ITX-Mainboard-Motherboard-FANLESS-/401438905676?hash=item5d779f954c

• 8GB DDR3 53€
  https://www.mindfactory.de/product\_info.php/8GB-Kingston-ValueRAM-DDR3-1333-DIMM-CL9-Single\_800875.html

• Pico 28€
  https://www.ebay.de/itm/picoPSU-80-DC-DC-80-Watt/162499959144?hash=item25d5c09968:g:TYIAAOSwjL5ZCEwq

• externes 12V Netzteil (60W) 8,39€
  https://www.ebay.de/itm/Netzteil-60W-12V-5A-fur-LCD-TFT-Monitor-LED-Strips-NAS-Festplatten-Pico-PSU/292553664098?hash=item441d8ea662:g:ZxkAAOSwMNVa8D5a
  https://www.ebay.de/i/292553664098?ul\_noapp=true

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cwp42

Hi DrDirks, for writing code with syntax-highlighting you can take VS from 2002/03 till webdeveloper express 2010. Activate "Show line numbers". For debugging use <% Option Explicit %> in the second line of code - incidently it enhances the performance. Run the scripts on your MS webserver. In IIS 7(.5) you find the ASP section => Compilation => Debugging Properties: set every entry to "True" execpt "Logging to NT..." that you'll don't need. After that you should be able to get detailed error massages including the line-nummer of code the error arises.

cwp42

Realy great - and hard work !

cwp42

It always depends on the coder !!! You can do this horror in every language.

cwp42

I can't agree - I found this: www.whydata.de/cwp42/Bing-Open-Office1.JPG

cwp42

For internet application developers: Omar AL Zabir Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 Great!

cwp42

Take Access - one file, fast and handy Read http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/DatabaseAcessWithAdoNet1.aspx[^]for details

cwp42

They are using WPF: Karl Shifflett http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/ Josh Smith http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/ Tor Langlo http://www.kodasoftware.com/

Christian Paproth

Really !? When looking for "classic asp" I'll get tons of links depending on ASP.NET And don't argue classic asp is not up-to-date enough ;-) Great.

cwp42

Sounds interesting. Do you think that it is a good way / usuall way to create the GUI in C# and the programming logic in C++ ?

cwp42

C# is easy to learn and the Framework provides all its functions very comfortable to me. But there are some counter-arguments: C# is slow (e.g. http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive458.html) like JAVA. Java and C# both compile to an interpreted language - in the past they said, this is one of the negativest features to the Basic language(s). So we came to (unmanaged) C++ - and I don't want to fight an ideologic battle.

cwp42

Sorry. Your're right: I'm a newbe. What I'm looking for is a general decision: what is the right way, a future-proof way, for me designing GUIs for C++ written software. There are lot of frameworks...some opinions that MFC is getting old...but there are new (commercial) versions of MFC 2007... There are GDI+ wrapper...the WinFX...WPF... I'm interested on how would a C++ guru decide.

cwp42

We - a friend of mine and me - are learning C++ (especially concerning the "Microsoft World"). So we decided to code in C++ and not in C# or managed C++. But how to create (modern) GUIs? Thanks for your counsels...

Christian - cwp42