Thanks. It looks complicated. I'm learning Windows desktop development and will take a look of QT first. I used it for a small project years ago and the experience was OK.

> 1. A standard way to define components that is statically reflectable (so you can populate property and event editors), and get documentation on the fly, etc.

This was what I really loved about Visual Basic back in the day. Everything is within clicks -- even with the legacy IDE it still feels slick.