2 well MS has a number of their visual studio express editions, or
you can look at eclipse. I would suggest looking at eclipse it to me seems
more fully featured and more opensource related. visual studio
express editions are "limited" unless you get visual studio.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:00 AM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to write an application that would more than likely run on
> Windows and interface with MySql. This would be an app that would interface
> with a database allowing the user to add / edit / delete data.
>
> The need is very simple. I was looking at Flex and find that I would
> probably need to use their Flex Builder which is $700. That is not feasible
> at this point. Trying to develop an app without it might be more of a pain
> than what it is worth.
>
> I could always use Java, which comes with it's difficulties also.
>
> My need is very simple. I need to create a simple menu, some forms, and
> the ability to interact with MySql to manage data remotely - IE port 3306.
> I would like to use an open source language, compiled to hide my work would
> be nice, Visual development environment would be good also. At a very
> minimum, I would like it to run on Windows. Mac and Linux would be a plus.
> Security is an issue also. Must be able to securely attach to port 3306 w/o
> someone being able to sniff out the user name and password. I know this is
> not a language issue, it is a configuration issue. I wonder if there is
> something like SFTP/SSH for MySql.
>
> As I was writing this I think Java might be the solution. Write once run
> everywhere. Java is open source and free.
>
> Is there a visual development environment for Java that is free, easy to
> learn and robust?
>
> Is there another language or languages I should consider?
>
> Thanks for your insight!
>
>
>
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