I’ve done my C++ classes and practices after which I started learning Visual C++ using book Ivor Horton’s Visual C++. The problem is that I am unable to understand the language of this book and badly trying to understand the codes. I want to learn Visual C++ for Windows application development and making my future in that (also because I already know C++).
Some of my friends told me to switch to C# since it has many library function to create GUI etc and told me it’s hard to code Windows applications in Visual C++.
Now in these holidays I am going to join classes, can you help me which language I should stick to, and which one will be easy?
From very beginning I want to learn Visual C++ and sometimes I think it’s hard when I don’t understand concept in reference books etc.
Any help will be very appreciated, thanks a lot for taking your precious time.
Visual C++ and Visual C# are not languages nor GUI frameworks; they are Integrated Development Environments – IDEs. This means they are text editors tailored to the task of development.
Visual C++ lets you code in C++, Visual C# lets you code in C#. Also, both let you create GUIs in a point-and-click manner.
Sounds like what you really want to do is create GUIs. In that case, without having further information, I recommend you go for C#. It is a much cleaner language than C++, it has fewer ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and it provides access to the immensely useful .NET framework.
C# features that C++ doesn’t have:
Lambda functions¹Type inference¹¹ these features have been added to C++ in the C++11 standard.
C++ features that C# doesn’t have