C++ for windows...

[psyko12]

Could anybody point me to a great windows based C++ programming platform, there's Borland Turbo C++ for windows but you gotta pay for it... Are there any more 3rd party applications that are freeware, which has complete headers and stuff... Just wanted to refresh the rusty c++ skills for my new job.

Thanks in advance

 

[W1zzard]

microsoft visual studio is by far the best and most complete platform, but not free

there are free express editions with limited features. should be good for most new users though

 

[psyko12]

Btw thanks sir! Found one on the stickies and now using Bloodshed Dev-C++

Wish it works well with windows

 

[Deleted member 3]

I like Visual studio. Though I recall DevC++ being free. Don't like it though.

 

[psyko12]

Till I can get hold of a legit version of visual studio, then I'll be temporarily using this one, MUST get visual studio though, as it was recommended by you 2 most respected people here on TPU, thanks guys more power....

Hope I could make my rusty skills improve and come back to me lol.. Also your programming section helped alot on re-learning all the C ++ stuff More power TPU

 

[W1zzard]

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/Default.aspx

free

 

[Hitsugaya_Toushirou]

I'm not against MS Visual Studio C++ but it doesn't use the standard C++ language but instead it uses some strange MS language used in all the Visual Studios (probably because it uses the dot net framework so all Visual Studios seem to have very similar languages). I noticed this when i was testing with different C++ IDE, the Visual Studio C++ language is very similar to Visual Basic language so if you start using Visual Studio you won't be able to use any others since they use a language of their own.

Also, I won't say that Visual Studio is the best anyway since it loads much slower and uses a lot more HHD storage space. And it isn't if there is anything good about it except a visual basic programmer could program with this.

I recommend wxDev-C++ from http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/
This is just an improvement on Dev-C++ so it can make GUIs more easily, has all the features needed for a better C++ IDE and it looks more "professional".
I found this much easier to use, saved a lot of RAM and HHD, was much faster, free and it used the correct C++ language.

 

[psyko12]

Thanks guys!!

 

[W1zzard]

I'm not against MS Visual Studio C++ but it doesn't use the standard C++ language but instead it uses some strange MS language

did you write a .net project? if yes, thats managed code and is different to standard c++.

unmanaged projects can be written using the standard c++ code. to write a win32 gui you can either use the windows api (painfully unproductive) or mfc which is a wrapper around all the api using c++ classes by microsoft

 

[Snipe343]

http://www.bloodshed.net/

 

[Ehstii]

microsoft visual studio is by far the best and most complete platform, but not free

there are free express editions with limited features. should be good for most new users though

+1

 

[psyko12]

Finally going to get a hold of visual studio, gonna ask uncle to get me 1 from the states

Thanks fellas

 

[Hitsugaya_Toushirou]

did you write a .net project? if yes, thats managed code and is different to standard c++.

unmanaged projects can be written using the standard c++ code. to write a win32 gui you can either use the windows api (painfully unproductive) or mfc which is a wrapper around all the api using c++ classes by microsoft

I know you can disable the .net thing to make it an unmanaged project but that destroys the purpose of using Visual Studio so that it's not any different to other C++ IDE except that it loads slower since it uses much more RAM and it uses a larger space on the HHD.

VS's value for it's cost is very bad since why would anyone want to pay hundreds for an IDE, which doesn't actually do anything except it's just a fancy text editor. The express edition is free but it puts limitations on what can be compiled so it'll be much better to use some other free IDE with a good compiler then it's fine.