[Wolves] C++

[Mark Croft]

yeah visual is like m$ tradename for there group of development
environments. This gave the impression that C++ was heading towards a
rapid application development system similar to Visual Basic. I did
use visual C++ 5 & 6 back in the early 90s when i was an programming ,
doing C++ embedded modules/AutoLISP APIs(best term I can come up with)
for autocad (was all quite involved stuff).
The visual side is that is has a dialog/form tool built into it and in
turn willl create a load of predefine code to drive the UI etc.
Obvious being microsoft it was based around a lot of the ideas of how
to create object oriented code and there a massive Microsoft Class
Library to deal with things. It was a very steep learning for myself
being a junior programmer , trying to get to grips with MFC &
Dialog/form. It was also enjoyable in a sort of geeky way too.

Hope that makes some sense , my english is terrible , why i do not
both much of the time trying to put my pence worth in and also I still
really live in the world that I am comfortable and that is still M$
Windows 2000.

Mark


On 10/02/2008, Andrew Lewis <andrew at monkeysailor.co.uk> wrote:
> baza wrote:
> > Might be a stupid question this. But is there any difference between
> > Visual C++ and 'vanilla' C++?
> As far as I can remember,  Visual C++ is like C++ but with some ms only
> IDE and libraries to deal will the windows API for drivers, windows
> callbacks, dll hooking ,etc. I think that the name mangling is also
> different in MS VC++, but that's just a vague memory from many years ago
> and might not be the case now.
>
> So the short answer is that the core is similar, but the libraries are
> different.
>
>
> spline
>
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