Subj : Re: What Visual IDEs available for Windows programming? To : comp.programming From : Duane Arnold Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 03:33 am typingcat@gmail.com wrote in news:1125880684.315036.322760 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: > How many Visual IDE's are there which I can use for programmiing > Windows GUI programs? Like, Visual Basic,Delphi, Visual C#... > > I'd like to know which can provide the following features > 1)Could create Unicode application > 2)Doesn't require any framework installation for users. > > What, even if you run a non .Net solution, the required runtime components such as a solution developed with Visual Studio 6 VB solution needs runtime components installed on a user's machine to execute, as an example. As far as a .Net solution, C++ .NET can be compiled and executed without the need for the .Net Framework -- non .Net managed code. However, I would suspect that some kind of non .Net runtime components must be installed on the machine. Duane :) .