I’ve been living under a Java rock for about 5 years now. I suddenly have the need to write a Windows-only program that I believe would be best suited as either pure C++/Windows or C++.NET (I’m not sure which yet). The reason is because I need to do all sorts of very OS-specific (Windows-specific) operations that wouldn’t make sense in the Java world.
So I ask, say I discover that .NET is not right for my project (this is to be determined). So then my only other alternative is to write a C++/Windows application. What’s the IDE of choice these days?
Visual Studio 2010 or free alternative Visual Studio Express
http://www.microsoft.com/express