No, it's an object, not a class.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
How do you use it, Elysia?
Do some reading...
http://www.cppreference.com/
http://www.cplusplus.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cscc687y.aspx
or any number of other sites online.