Thread: Vc++ or my old compiler.

I would definitely recommend that you use Visual Studio. I personally don't like precompiled headers - so leave that off...

If you can write code in Borland, then you can write code using Visual Studio - the only differences are which keys you press to compile, step etc. Both are using essentially the same C++ language.

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Mats

I installed Visual c++ compiler from microsoft yesterday

Are you talking about the 2008 Express edition ?

However I just do not understand the 'precompiled header' and such...

Well, for now, you shouldn't care much about "precompiled header". It's just something to make compilation faster (basically). So, except if you have a larger project or a really slow computer, you can forget about it for now.

When you create a new VC++ Win32 Console Application/Win32 Project, there's an "empty project" box in the last page of the wizard. Click on it, so you'll have a clean environnement. You'll just need to add new files to your project, and voila!

I really like Visual Studio 2008. Never worked with Borland tough, but i'm quite sure it's not as powerful and easy to use.

You can disable PCH via projects -> c/c++ -> precompiled headers.
If you DO use them, you only need to include "stdafx.h" in every source file and it will compile fine.
With PCH enabled, you can put big headers inside stdafx.h. With PCH, the compiler will only compile them once, saving you compile time.
It's up to you, really, to use them or to not.

Maybe it's Microsoft monopoly? O_O