Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 Express

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dominicb

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Hi all

After a long break from programming I'm easing myself back in with MS Visual C++ 9.0 Express, however, I'm not entirely comfortable with the environment.

Are there any aids specific to this development software - books, e-books, on-line tutorials etc - free or otherwise - that anyone would care to recommend to me?

Thanks for reading. Have a nice evening.

DominicB
 
Hi GameMaster

Thanks for the links. I actually already found the Microsoft one, but it doesn't really go into enough detail, or take things very far. The ones from onesmartclick.com I found when I searched Amazon and didn't really fire anything creative in me, but I didn't come across the functionx site which looks interesting and seems to start off with some free tutorials, so I may well go along with that one.

I might just see if there's any more takers yet...

Thanks for your input.

DominicB
 
Hi guys

Thanks for the responses.
Rothzael : I have started playing with it and done a simple "hello world" window, compiled it, saved it, ran it. Great. Tried to run it again and got all sorts of errors. It's the whole Visual C++ environment that I'm uncomfortable with, and once I find my way around that I'll be OK learning on my own.

diroga said:
i suggest C#.NET
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Should I be going for C#.NET?
If so, why?
If not, why not?

Thanks for your time.

DominicB
 
dominicb said:
Hi guys

Thanks for the responses.
Rothzael : I have started playing with it and done a simple "hello world" window, compiled it, saved it, ran it. Great. Tried to run it again and got all sorts of errors. It's the whole Visual C++ environment that I'm uncomfortable with, and once I find my way around that I'll be OK learning on my own.
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Well, there are other solutions. You could forget VC++ altogether and try a different IDE. Eclipse is free. But your statement is perplexing. What errors did you get? How does it run once and then not run the second time?

Should I be going for C#.NET?
If so, why?
If not, why not?

Thanks for your time.

DominicB
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I won't start a war about which language is better than another, because there is no proper answer to the question. If C++ is the language you know, why not ease yourself back into it before looking at learning C# or Java?
 
Hi Rothzael

Rothzael said:
What errors did you get? How does it run once and then not run the second time?
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Beats me:confused: The error was something about a missing library (I forget the exact one), but like I said it ran first time, and not again. Did this twice, but last time I programmed you had an editor and a compiler, you compiled your code and everything was fine (usually). With Visual C++ it's a whole environment that I'm unfamiliar with and I just need a bump in the right direction.

But think I'll stick with MS Visual C++ for now and see how things pan out.

Thanks all for your thoughts.

DominicB
 
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