Hello all,
Recently I've offered to make an automation process occur for a fairly complex piece of software. I need some automation software to do this. The software must be able to compile a standalone exe (not requiring any runtimes or anthing) and the EXE must be compatible with vista, as that's what it will be running on. I need to software to be able to prompt the user for various pieces of information, such as location number, or new or upgrade installation. I also need it to be able to check if a file exists and overwrite files automatically.

Do you have any suggestions? Ultimately I could make a program in C and compile it, but that would require quite a bit of learning on my part as I only know C#.NET and, well, I'd need to ensure the .NET platform was installed if I did that. If I were to use VC++6, then I'd still be looking at a learning curve, but there would be no dependancies from what I understand.

I understand that there are third party scripting programs, but I've yet to be able find any, let alone ensure they do what I need.