The actual price of VC++ Professional is somewhere between $400 and $500. If your only paying $100 then you''re either getting the Academic Edition or the Standard Edition which has less features.

Nevermind, just picked up MSVC++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition for $60 after tax!!! And it works! This is the top version which usually runs for several hundred bucks or more, I believe (or used to?). It pays to go to a discount computer show & sale. :D

Btw, I was asking because I was wondering if using a non-MS compiler is disadvantaged in dealing with MS DirectX, as I have no experience with other compilers using DirectX (ie MSVC might have better performance and integration with DX than other compilers, maybe or maybe not?).

Be well.

quote: Original post by BrianMJC
Btw, I was asking because I was wondering if using a non-MS compiler is disadvantaged in dealing with MS DirectX, as I have no experience with other compilers using DirectX (ie MSVC might have better performance and integration with DX than other compilers, maybe or maybe not?).

The DirectX SDK is only supplied with import libraries in the MS format. If you want to use the SDK with other compilers that use a different binary format, you have to rely on third-parties to provide alternative import libraries for you.

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Thanks, be well.

If you can afford a copy, MSVC++ 6 is awesome. I''ve used DJCPP with RHIDE, I''ve used DevC++, I''ve used Notepad (ughh). But after I started using MSVC++ everything else just doesn''t cut it.

I don''t know much about how the COMPILER''s compare, but the IDE on MSVC is the best. It has the smartest auto-tabbing features, automatically brings up popups and list boxes of syntaxes and member variables as you type, and color codes everything well. It also wraps your resources, make file, source, and headers into a neat little package.

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Chris Vogel
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