Programming help/advice

Advice from anyone appreciated.

Looking to build an application which will be using a database to read, write data... The application will be one where a customer would come in and the end user of application will enter details, generate reference numbers etc so that will be the database link which will be updated/edited etc...
What would you suggest this be made on? Has this been made before? any examples? VB6, .NET, Access?


What do you experts suggest the coding etc be done in?

If there are any examples / websites / tutorials available please share

 

I'm not an expert, but if you want to learn the basics of programming while also learning an excellent language, I would recommend using C#.

Some tutorials:
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436(v=vs.71).aspx

I would use Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-csharp-express

(It's completely free, you can sell/distribute anything you make in it too so long as you don't use licensed third-party libraries)

I would also recommend you take the time to learn C# before trying this. It doesn't seem very difficult (from my standpoint) but a beginner probably shouldn't dive head-first in if he wants a final product.

-Quarker