[mauriciolange]

Two very different solutions. Autohotkey is a scripting language for specific tasks, while Delphi is unbounded in this sense. And Visual Studio has no RAD concept.

[sumnole]

Visual Studio has WinForms, which is pretty RAD.

[NetMageSCW]

And I think preferable to the XML split of code and GUI that is web like and how Microsoft’s other frameworks work.

[anakaine]

It is absolutely preferable in that sense. The web-esq interface approach is far harder than it needs to be for small applications with basic interfaces.