Visual Studio Express. It's Free or if you are a student or school admin you can get the pro version from dreamspark.com

Visual style editors will never, i repeat never, give you as much quality as a well designed and coded app by hand.

Learn a programming language, as other users have said programs like Visual Studio do have GUI interfaces that are wonderful, an example of this is being able to convert a flow chart of data into a SQL database.

These tools however, will not create software for you It's is up to the person behind the keyboard to put the idea and the code together.

VB.NET is good but I still recommend java with Netbean IDE. Its completely free with drag and drop interface

Even if you visually design an application, you're still going to need to get your hands dirty and actually write some code. A lot of code.

I personally prefer the QT tools: http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/ Which include QT creator, a drag and drop design tool, which generates an XML document which can then be used by any QT application. This is something I've only done passively as a hobby, since my real profession is as a web developer, but maybe some of the real experts can share their opinions on this.

QT applications are written in C++, but there are bindings written for it to many other popular languages, such as Python and Java. So pick your poison. If you want to build an application, you're going to need someone who is proficient in a programming language; either you're going to need to write some code, or hire someone who can.

Delphi is my way - drag n drop, code completion, templates, you name it. It has a huge library of built-in functions & components aswell.

All the .NET Languages are dependent on the .NET Framework, which I personally dislike.

If you're looking for a good mix of ease of use and power, you can't go wrong with python. It has got many toolkits that support creating software. Since it's dynamically typed and has libraries for virtually everything under the sun, it's a lot easier to get something done quickly.

c# and vb.net aren't too bad either(garbage collected, easy installation etc), just don't go anywhere near c++

You can learn to use either Visual Studio C# or Delphi. It's quite easy since it already very visual to create your app.

c# all the way.. easy to use and mega powerful in terms of features..

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Hello,
I would suggest Vb.net and asp.net for application programming using drag drop method

Python gets my vote.

Most of my coders prefer to use python.

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