Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Standard 2003 [OLD VERSION]

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From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

15 reviews
Sales Rank: 4650

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition, Windows 2003 Server
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 3.1 x 0.8

MPN: 254-00257
Model: 254-00257
UPC: 805529137615
EAN: 0805529137615
ASIN: B000089GKV

Release Date: May 10, 2003

Features:

•	Use this powerful visual development tool for high-performance apps for Windows or the Web
•	This cutting-edge technology serves industry-standard C++ development through commercial and community-based libraries
•	Use the ATL Server to encapsulate C++ programs into a handy set of ATL classes
•	Work with powerful new XML Services for smaller and faster programs

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Product Description
Visual C++ .NET 2003 provides developers with a proven, object-oriented language for building powerful and performance-conscious applications. With advanced ISO-conforming template features, low-level platform access, and an optimizing compiler, Visual C++ .NET 2003 delivers superior functionality for generating robust applications and components.

Developers can use Visual C++ .NET 2003 to build a wide variety of solutions, including Microsoft Windows-based and Microsoft .NET-connected applications. C++ is one of the world's most popular systems-level languages, and Visual C++ .NET 2003 gives developers a world-class tool with which to build best-in-class software.

Use Managed Extensions to C++ and compiler support for optimized Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) code generation. Incorporate Microsoft .NET Framework features including garbage collection, Windows Forms, and threading. Call unmanaged code using high-performance C++ interoperability technology. Write and compile purely unmanaged x86 code. Speed up your application or reduce its size with optimization options for a range of processors, including Whole Program Optimization, and support for Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) instruction sets.

Product Description
With Visual C++ .NET Standard 2003 you'll have the tools you need for building and consuming .NET components designed with C++!

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

C# .NET best of breed if you are a Windows shop December 17, 2005
Paul Wolfson (Carrollton, TX USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

C# .NET is an easy transition for either a C++ or Java programmer. After crashing and burning on every Visual Basic Project I've ever worked on, this is a refreshing change. Its fast and easy - I only wish that it were an open standard. The code I've written in it and used as pseudo-code ported back to linux with only a few changes and wrappers.

5 out of 5 stars

Great C++ compiler October 18, 2005
John S. Gomez
5 out of 9 found this review helpful

For the price, you can't beat it. Great for making programs while taking a C++ class. Haven't had any problems with the compiler.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent value! June 12, 2005
Dennis L. Hughes (Austin, TX USA)
18 out of 23 found this review helpful

While Visual C++ Professional is a better choice for those needing to build optimized production code, Standard Edition 2003 rates 5 stars for the price.

This product is targeted at students. Hence the low price and lack of an optimizing compiler.

That said, here are some reasons a professional developer on a tight budget might still want to buy this product:

- Can be used for many projects where compiler optimization is not critical or even relevant: prototyping, debugging, Managed C++, tools, many production apps, etc.
- If you need high-performance compiled code (and can't afford the Pro version) you can download the optimizing compiler free from Microsoft. That compiler compares well overall with anything else available on Windows or Linux.
- Simply the best C++ development environment available at any price. (Class View is far superior to 6.0. GUI-development tools are also far better, once you get used to them.)
- .NET is superior to MFC for GUI development. However, Managed C++ is not the best tool for taking advantage of it.
- .NET is superior to MFC/ATL (COM) for development of distributed applications. (Easier to develop, deploy, manage, etc.)
- One of the most standards-compliant compilers around (unlike 6.0). This is necessary if you want to use a some modern techniques like template metaprogramming.
- Excellent documentation for C++ and STL. (unlike 6.0, but also available online)
- Excellent documentation for Windows API and many other windows-related technologies. (also available online)
- MFC, ATL, and .NET libraries not available with "free" software.

If you are on a shoe-string budget, this product is well worth the price. You will be more productive than you can be with "free" tools, and you will get a better product overall than Visual C++ 6.

That said, 2005 is due out soon. Managed C++ is supposed to be much improved. In addition, a third-tier product will be introduced called Visual C++ Express, presumably at an even cheaper price than Standard.

1 out of 5 stars

Thank you all June 10, 2005
Troll Fiddler (Ireland)
2 out of 13 found this review helpful

I was going to buy a game dev SDK and it required VC++ 2003. Thanks to these reviews I will forget the whole thing and use Dev C++ which is free (and I already use) and use open source game components like Ogre.

1 out of 5 stars

Bad and Slow March 31, 2005
Repent (Leominster, MA USA)
12 out of 20 found this review helpful

You can download this product for free, including the 2005 edition. Despite this fact the VC++.net compiles code that is about 1000 times slower than their visual studio compiler, even after optimizations are turned on (g1-g7.cpp). Even funnier is the fact that when I turn on SSE2 optimizations on their visual studio product, their floating point code test sample (gl-g7.cpp) runs slower on my Pentium 4 2.4 GHz machine (SSE2 enabled) than with the optimizations turned off. Nice advertisement for their optimizing compiler eh?

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