jayme

Different people like different IDE's more than others. Some will tell you MSVC++ is the best, some will tell you dev-cpp is the best, and I will tell you Code::Blocks is the best. The decision is up to you so try them out and decide for yourself, don't ask other people which IDE you should use.

That being said, please visit this thread: http://www.programmingforums.org/for...ad.php?t=10076

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coder0xff

If you are planning on going into the industry, then maybe you should consider what area of the industry you want to get into. If you want to work for a company that needs simple GUI programs, then .Net may be a good choice. If you are thinking game industry, or embeded systems, you will most likely not be using .net. Something to consider maybe?

Ooble

Well, the C++ applications he's creating don't use .NET. Visual C++ 2005 can create .NET applications, but it doesn't have to.

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bl00dninja

if you're using visual studio you can turn off the "precompiled headers" option when you create the project (if you go through all the options screens). or:

you can click on project/properties/C++/precompiled headers and turn it off there.

yeah, i asked this question aways back and got shitty responses also.

also, just the free C++ part of VS may not bother you with this, i don't remember.

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Ooble

As Narue hinted at earlier, in Visual C++ 2005, you simply check the "Empty Project" checkbox when creating the project. If you're using Visual C++ 6 or below, BN be right.

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Harakim

I have VS 2003 Professional so it may not be the same, but...

Go to new> project

Expand "Visual C++ Projects", then open the folder "Win32".


Choose "Win32 Console Project" or "Win32 Project".
>>"Win32 Console Project" will give you a command prompt environment whereas Win32 Project doesn't. (I don't know of the other differences, if any.)

Choose a name and continue.

You will see a blue/white box now. On the left side has two choices, "Overview" and "Application Settings". Click Application Settings.

Under "Additional options", select the "Empty Project" check box.

Now you can click Finish.

To add a source file to the project, go to the "Project" tab of the toolbar. Select "Add Class..." to add a class, or "Add New Item..." to add a static source file or header file (c-style programming without classes).


Sorry if I sound patronizing, but I couldn't figure this stuff out when I started and I figure too much information is better than not enough. Also, there are other ways to accomplish the same thing, but I think this is the fastest.