application project

Hello I was just wondering if someone could offer me some advice as to which project type to adopt for this application I am going to be developing. All of the code is going to be c++, but I am unsure as to which project type I should select from my compiler (using vs .net 2003). The majority of the classes will be using COM and ATL.

I do not know whether to develop a standard windows app, an mfc windows app or a .net windows app. I wouldn't like to choose the basic windows project because none of the controls have any events selectable, whereas the mfc project for windows provides some wraping and gives events for the controls. The .net project would provide the easiest tools for development, but this means that every machine has to have the .net framework installed.

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

It would help if you described what the actual application will be doing.

The application will be a basic speech app. It will taking input from an external device, such as stero, dictation device, etc, anything really that can be connected to the pcs line in wave device. The classes will then be using Speech API to try and recognise various words from the input stream. Recognised and unrecognised words will be displayed on the interface accordingly. The app will also allow the user to be able to train the system for higher recognition accuracy. All of the code will be in c++, and will be using COM.