Part of Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual C++ (also called MSVC) is one of the most popular programming environments with a strong following and a large developer community. Many applications are or were written in C++ including the Windows operating system itself. It is a highly typed language, very robust and fast. Much of the power of Visual C++ stems from it's direct access to the Microsoft Foundation Class program libraries. These libraries do much of the standard functions of the computer such as application menu control, dialog control as well as networking and file input output. MFCL is vast... the documentation for the current MFC library runs to 6 volumes! read more