I've been playing around with the free visual C toolkit all morning (since I
found out it was available!).  As with most free versions of commercial
compilers, there's no IDE or even a code editor included.  If you don't mind
doing things through the command line it seems to work great, it had 100%
success rate at compiling old projects created in the for-pay version of
VC++6, mostly c projects.  I'm personally a fan of the command line.  It
takes a bit longer to learn, but gets in the way a lot less in the long run.
Overall I rate it as an A, since it does what its supposed to do, and is
free.  The only annoying part is the officious installation routine typical
of windows products in general.


> From: "Luis Moreira" <Luis.Moreira@JET.EFDA.ORG>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 3:19 AM
> Subject: [EE:] Visual C++ toolkit from microsoft
>
>
> > Hi Guys
> > has anyone used the free toolkit for Visual C++ from microsoft and if so
> how
> > do you rate it. Does it come with IDE ?
> > regards
>
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