Thanks Robert/John I will have to go and have a look at the tutorials, I did use some comand line before but normally tend to use the IDE, probably not a very good thing... I will also have a look at the examples. regards Luis -----Original Message----- From: Robert B. [mailto:piclist@NERDULATOR.NET] Sent: 30 July 2004 14:40 To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu Subject: Re: [EE:] Visual C++ toolkit from microsoft 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" > To: > 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 > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads