Hi Everyone,

I'm posting this to multiple list so some of you might see this again.

I'm looking for a Windows desktop visual development tool to do stuff like:

1) scrape website content
2) pass through CAPTCHA challenges
3) would like a light weight database

I might actually use it for other things as well, just not sure yet what else I might need it for.

A friend uses Delphi and recommended that. I'm not sure I need to do Windows API calls, however one never knows.

Not interested in a whole windows suite, however maybe I could use VCC. Only concern is I might get sucked into Dot Net..... Then five years from now I wake up clean shaven and wearing a tie and wondering how it all got this way.....

As I write this I'm thinking C++ might be the natural selection because it will allow me to build skills that I can transfer to Linux if I ever decide to do any Linux Programming.

Any ideas or pointers are much appreciated.

Keith