[thechat] Visual Studio 6 or Visual Studio .NET?

[Ashok Hariharan]

dont use either of those.....

If it is a beginners C++ course, I guess you wont
be writing any windows specific programs (using the
win32 API).

In that case you can even make do with turbo c++
3.0 (yeah! a dos IDE).

for win32 c++  programming i still use visual c++ 4.2,
the IDE is light years faster than vs 5, vs 6 or vs.net.

however i still  have a copy of visual c++ 1.52 (the
last 16 bit windows vc++ version), its again very
fast and good enough for creating console C++
programs.

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  |University of California Irvine Extension. The
  |instructor taught our people Ada83 several years
  |ago and has a good reputation so I thought I'd
  |give it a try. Boeing is paying for the class and
  |any required books and software. Book is "Beginning
  |C++ The Complete Language" by Horton. He says we
  |can either get Visual Studio 6 or Visual Studio .NET.
  |We're going to use .NET in the labs but he says you
  |can use 6 okay-fine for what we're going to be doing.
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