What API / SDK to use for this Windows application?

Question

I am going to create a GUI utility that will work on Windows operating systems.

This requires a minimal (or zero!) Number of additional libraries, files or DLLs, since it will be executed from the installer. Because of this, I do not want to use .NET, because this will require installing the .NET Framework. Today I know that most of the systems installed on Windows come with the .NET Framework, but in my case I cannot be sure.

The utility will be ...

• send some data to the website and analyze the returned data,
• collect some information about equipment, such as MAC address, processor type and type, hard disk serial number

I believe that Win32's own API can be used for all of the above, but instead of helping Win32, I would rather use a more convenient API or SDK for developers.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

++ - MFC. WTL, .

Answer 3

DLL, DLL exe. - Visual ++ .

Answer 4

WTL , , . CRT hey presto - EXE.

Answer 5

Delphi ( Embarcadero) , .exe , API Win32.

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Answer 6

MFC ( ), HTML, COM. ( javascript, , ).

Answer 7

For the specific requirement that you have, I believe that the Win32 API is the only way out.

Answer 8

Use MFC and statically link to it. No need to install runtimes.