Thread: Switching to windows environment

I am quite familiar with C programming, but I have found very difficulty in switching to Visual C++. I want to switch to Visual C++ because I want my program to work in windows environment. Should I try vb instead of VC++?

PS I don't have any experience in vb.

I would skip VC++. and go straight to C#.Net if you wan't to do "windows" programming. VB is great for prototyping because the interfaces are easier to build and maintain than MFC, but it's kind of a dead end, because the language is so different from VB.Net that you have to relearn 50% of it anyway.

If you have to do it on the cheap, then download the J2SE Java 2 standard edition and Swingset. (FREE) That's a whole development envirnoment with a lot of already done widgets (tree view, mdi forms, dialogs, etc) and it's the most portable.

I know, I know, heresy to the entrenched status quo, but to me it's just a big toolbox. If someone else is paying the bill for the dev environment, then .Net it is for me. Esp if you're starting out, don't waste time with VC++. C# is vastly superior unless you're already a VC guru, then of course it's fatwa time for even mentioning it.

C# is 95-98% of the speed of C++, so as the previous poster said, you might want to use C#(surprisingly, visual C# outperforms GCC C).

I mean windows environment is like the button with minimize, maximize, close and that kind of. In C, that is very difficult to design and impossible to get like WinXP, rite? so C# gonna be included everything? Which place on the web is a good place to start for c#?

Originally posted by Stoned_Coder
No not right. Read petzold. Search for information on MSDN. Visit the winprog.org tutorial. Programming for windows in c,once you know the api, is actually quite easy and yes you can make your windows look like xp's windows.

You may also choose to mow your lawn with nail clippers. That too is easy once you know how. Honestly, I learned ot do it in C, then C+ , then C++, then MFC, then C#, so I am absolutely, resolutely sure that it it BY FAR the easiest environment EVER for coding Windows applications is C#!

However, anyone that is IN LOVE with the old horse n' buggy, we don't take kindly to folks usin' new fangled notions 'round here is free to remain locked in their shack in Montana, saying the only technology that matters is the pure technology from days of old. No Kool-Aid for me, thanks.

I'm not ordering anyone into the next century, but if someone asks, I am free to say, yeah, use the NEW tools, they're great and not be *wrong* for saying so.

I'm unsubscribing to this thread now. Bye.

Originally posted by MattFoley
I'm unsubscribing to this thread now. Bye.

Awww, he's gone back to his van down by the river...

gg