Looking for a software to practice "C" .,...and mayb some time later "C++" .too .....and i came across....

and i came accross microsoft visual 6.0 ...so is there any way so that i can download it for free ..i tried download.com but it did not work ...my xp is genuin /.so can i download it from microsoft.com ?? if yes then cud u plz give me the link???








thanq!!!!

Looking for a software to practice "C" .,...and mayb some time later "C++" .too .....and i came across....
You can get free C and C++ compilers at http://www.bloodshed.net





They also provide many other compilers.
Reply:There are free versions of Microsoft's development tools for you to download from their website. One sec...





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Reply:yes, from microsoft.com you can get it for free.





But it will take more time even on a broadband connection. It uses its own downloader. I recommend you to get VB also.





C/C++ programming does not end with the blank black screen. It has graphics option also, using which you can do graphical works.





Did you know that many games are created using C/C++.





But there are also many lightweight C/C++ compilers like Borland turbo C++.





Use a compiler that best suits you.
Reply:Try the link down. Search for visual studio in the search box.
Reply:You cannot download Microsoft (MS) Visual Studio 6 for free even if you have genuine MS Windows XP, because it's a different product which has to be bought separately.





But, MS provides Visual Studio Express Edition free of cost, you can download it from here:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expres...


(the link above is only for Visual C++ Express edition which you have to use for C and C++ programming.








Now, coming to your next query. You have done C programming in TC 3.0 which was developed for 16-bit platforms like MS-DOS. Such operating systems didn't have Graphical User Interfaces like Windows has, so those black screen programs (as you have termed them) were sufficient. (You can add colours to that as well, even the TC/TC++ IDE where you write and compile programs with that blue screen and menus can be written in that DOS based C)





Modern 32-bit compilers (like Visual C/C++ 6.0) support window based programming as well. So you can write your own browser (like IE or Firefox) and anything else you see. Even operating systems like Windows XP can be written in C. And yes, these softwares are also collection of programs and they can be written in C, but what you have learnt till now isn't sufficient for that. You need to learn Windows programming.