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copied!<p>Where to start?</p> <ol> <li>Choose a development environment (I would suggest Visual Studio 2008 Express or Professional, depending on the budget and the need for features of the Professional version)</li> <li>Even for one single developer: <strong>choose a Version control system !!!!</strong> (Subversion has only little administrative overhead, fine for one developer)</li> <li>Choose a .NET Framework version (3.5 is fine unless your application has to run on Win2K; for Win2K use .NET 2.0)</li> <li>Choose a mature programming language (C# or VB.NET, what you or your boss likes best)</li> <li>Choose a GUI technology (for a single developer, I would suggest using WinForms, unless you are going to write a Web application or a command line utility)</li> <li>Choose a mature DB access technology (ADO.NET works for a lot of things, unless you have very high performance requirements that are better dealt with old ADO/OleDB or DAO)</li> <li><em>EDIT</em>: use Google to find some entry examples according to the choosen technology, or buy yourself a book. For example, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288452%28VS.71%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> is one for C# using OLE DB to access a MS Access DB. <a href="http://www.mvps.org/access/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This Access site</a> is a good starting point, too.</li> <li><em>EDIT2</em>: make yourself familiar with "Microsoft Access" (the Office Application). Not because you are going to use it like a typical user, but you will probably need it for administrative purposes. And the VBA & SQL documentation included will be sometimes helpful, even if you code with C# or VB.NET</li> <li><p><em>EDIT3</em>: for reporting purposes, choose a reporting technology. There are plenty of possibilites here, depending on your needs, your skills and/or budget, for example </p> <ul> <li>Plain ASCII or CSV reports (coded by hand)</li> <li>HTML or XML reports </li> <li>using Excel as reporting engine</li> <li>using a PDF library like <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/report/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Report.NET</a></li> <li>using a third party tool like Crystal Reports</li> </ul> <p>You will find a lot of helpful links when you give <em>"report generation .net"</em> to Google, for example <a href="http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/harishps/ReportsInDotNet11082005233222PM/ReportsInDotNet.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one</a>.</p></li> </ol> <p>And finally: come back to SO and ask more concrete questions when you come to the point where you have them.</p> <p>There might be other constraints, depending on what code is already existing in your organization. And I would avoid technologies like <code>F#</code>, WPF or <em>Linq to Entities</em>.</p>

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