Thanks for all the suggestions but after giving it a try for a while, I discovered that Dev-C++ and I are pretty incompatible, and it's resource editor leave much to be desired, and I usually use C++ more than straight C so I don't want to deal with that limitation that Lcc imposes. (i actually had lcc for a while but I outgrew it as i moved into learning C++) Are there independent resource compilers out there? I'm trying to find some on google and download.com but i can't seem to...
Also does anybody know when the next version of Vc++ is going to be released, is it soon or should i just buy version six now.