Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

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I am going to give Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition a go and see if I can write a windows app without MFC.

Does anyone have any experience in this? I want to create a simple windows interface. To begin with, what project type should I choose? CLR, Win32 or General?

[Valmont]

Sure you can do it withough MFC. Try it with .NET. I feelt it's very cool.
However, better find a tutorial on C# or VB .NET 2.0 and follow a beginners course. It's pretty useless to start GUI coding without knowing anything about the .NET framework.

If you like GUI's and a powerfull programming-environment then go for it!

[DJMaze]

.NET with its 30 Megs footprint in memory is certainly for beginners.

But just writing a powerfull GUI with CreateWindowEx() is tough but cool!

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C# looks pretty good.

I built my first app easily.

I am looking for a good example of how do to a simple read and write of a file. Any suggestions?

[DJMaze]

#include <stdio>

FILE *stream = fopen("myfile.txt", "a+");
fputs("my file content", stream);
fclose(stream);

but this should be in a different topic

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Originally Posted by DJMaze

#include <stdio>

FILE *stream = fopen("myfile.txt", "a+");
fputs("my file content", stream);
fclose(stream);

but this should be in a different topic

I think it is C++ code and not C# anyway.

[redhead]

And wasn't your request posted in a C++ thread ?