Buying advice?

Well, I was thinking of buying MS Visual C++. So I want to know if its a good choice over what borland has to offer (on a aprox. budget of 150$

What do you think?

For Windows compilers I prefer Borland over Microsoft, but Microsoft's debugger is superior in my opinion.

-Prelude

Well, lets say if I was to do some graphics, which one would be better. I was told that for 3D stuff Microsoft's visuall c++ is better.

But then there is JAVA which I looked at, but, well maybe...

I would buy MS VC++ or VC.NET. The predominant compiler for the game industry is Visual Studio.

Borland is way too hard to work with IMO, I've used up to 5.02 Borland compiler.

I wouldn't bother if your poor like me. I could
get it for 15$ and I still havn't mainly because I'm lazy.
There are free ones such as mingw and borland's cmd line.

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Well, lets say if I was to do some graphics, which one would be better. I was told that for 3D stuff Microsoft's visuall c++ is better.

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Any win32 compiler can uses the same directx libaries.
Also realize that the msvc++ standard does not optimize.
In order to get an optimizing microsoft compiler you have to buy
the pro or above edition.

Well, I'm pretty sure that I'll like (not love) VC++ but...

I looked on the net at compusa and amazon and microsoft.com and found different prices for some of the programs.

I don't understand why VC++ standard costs roughly 100 and some kind of enterprize eddition costs around 3000 which I don't got.

Are there surtain limitations on what you can do in both, like will the standard eddition let you make .exe?

The standard edition will probably cover your needs. The biggest limitation of the standard edition is the compiler is non-optimising.Other than that it should be fine to at least learn c++,windows api programming and MFC/ATL programming. I believe you can also do c# with it although im not 100% sure of that.
The enterprise editions etc. are the full visual studio package not just vis c++.

Dev-c++ is an IDE that you can use for the mingw compiler. That is free and not as good as visual c++.net standard but will get you started for nothing. Its here

Personally im not keen on borlands c++ although I used to like their debugger. I found it more user-friendly than msvc's.

Do you think I'll be able to do some of serious graphics stuff with VC++? 'cause I'm about to go to compusa in about 24 hours and I might make a mistake!

But wheather that will be a big mistake we'll will find out.

So, so far I'm thinking of buying the standard eddition VC++ for roughly 100.

Thanx!:D

you can do anything opengl and directx with visual c++.net. Is that good enough graphics for u??

am, sure. yeah that'll do.

Oh and yeah, another question!!!

Will the standard eddition of VC++ .net work on standard eddition of winXP? Or do I need to buy a pro version of XP:confused:

it will work on any edition of XP or win2k