Language of choice for windows app importing graphics from web?

Hi, I have a couple of small tools in windows form format written in C++ (and written in procedural style) and am looking at rewriting them in an OO way to make extending / adding additional functionality easier in the future.

I want to be able to have an image (advert) nested in the tool that would be imported from a web server elsewhere, so that the appearance of the tool changes from time to time.

In addition, in the future I'd like to be able to have the tool on web pages as part of the page, not always having to be downloaded as a .exe, so being able to use the majority of code in both windows form and webpage applications would be an advantage.

Can anyone recommend a language for both the ease of importing a dynamic image into a windows form from a server / remote database (eg. to tell it to get an image called todaysimage.gif / jpeg etc. from www.myimagelocation.com and put it into the image holder), and the re-use of code side of things?

I have a basic level of C++, am in the process of learning Java and hoping to pick up some C# very soon, so ideally one of these languages is preferred. My gut feeling is to go to C# for the re-use of code side of things (ASP.Net?) but I know nothing about C# or ASP.Net yet.

Many thanks,
afro

Any of the languages that you mentioned would do the job. If you intend on learning a new language, say dotnet or C++, then this would be an ideal project to test out the new language.

Let us know how it went.

Will do, although it may take some time..

I liked C++ but 95% of the programming I learned was procedural style with very little OO, and since it is very easy (for me at least) to slip out of OO style then I think Java is where I'm looking to go, especially as thats what I'm using all year on my course. I do however know very little (useful in terms of this) Java so it's research time, yay!

Afro

For what i have heard (and scripts I've seen on the net), Java is very similar to C# (or the other way around).
If you are learning Java academically, then you shouldn't have any problem exploring C# as well. Try it.