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copied!<p>I try to give some answers to your questions:</p> <p><strong>1) Good Program Structure</strong></p> <p>This really depends on what matters most - cost of development, ease of deployment/update, maintainability, target machine requirements. It is hard to give you a good answer because the topic is so large. I suggest this as a good place to start reading:</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Software Design</a></p> <p><strong>(2) Good Practice for developing UI</strong></p> <p>This really does depend on what technology you are going to use. If you're running on Windows, you have a handful of options:</p> <p>a) Win32 API programming</p> <p>This is the hardest and involves writing code to call functions like 'CreateWindow' to create your UI a piece at a time.</p> <p>b) ATL - Active Template Library</p> <p>This is a bit easier than (1) but uses really hardcore C++ - you need to know about Templates, Multiple Inheritance, some Patterns and you'll end up learning Win32 anyway.</p> <p>c) Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)</p> <p>If you have Visual C++ or Visual Studio, you can create an MFC project which has dialog editors and a UI framework to more easily create rich user interfaces. Microsoft Outlook is written in MFC.</p> <p>d) Use C#.net</p> <p>If you have Visual Studio, then I would recommend that you make your UI in Visual C# using the Forms Designer tool as it is quite easy to create a flexible and responsive UI. You can still do all your business logic in C++ and link to it from the C#. It is also the newest of all these options.</p> <p><strong>3) ActiveX</strong></p> <p>For all options (a), (b), (c), (d) you can make an ActiveX control to make your program re-usable. You can also make an ActiveX control in Visual Basic.</p> <p>Hope this helps!</p> <p>James</p>

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