Which language & IDE to use? (Small App & System Service on Win7)

Hi all,

I have got an idea to develop an app on Win7. It is rather a small project but it probably is required to rely on a system service, as it is supposed to run code on system boot and on scheduled times as well.

My idea is to have a small .exe which is going to be used to configure the service (maybe via an XML config file?)

Now I am looking for the right coding language and IDE to use.
My only experience so far is that I was doing some development in VB6 back in the days, like 5 years ago.

I am considering either using Visual Studio C# or either Python with some IDE (I found http://ironpythonstudio.codeplex.com/ but it seems outdated)

Any ideas or recommendations ?

Regards,
Steve

I'd suggest VB.net, C# or Delphi. Delphi is way faster, but it's exe has a bigger size. Maybe with UPX you could make the Delphi exe smaller.

It's really up to you!

VB.NET is the most straightforward choice.

Yeah Delphi is far better ...go for it....