Re: Linked Lists debugger question

Hi Robert,

"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio news:4F4C6551-FB37-4819-A06B-A07B7D679C7E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What is the difference between the Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition free
download version and the version that can be purchased. What I mean to ask
is, with the Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, am I missing out on some of the
features or language capabilities such as stl, templates that would
otherwise exist in the purchasable one.

For a detailed comparison, you may want to see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

Of course, the Express Edition [EE] has less features than the commercial versions (like Professional, Team Suite, etc. - note that there are several commercial versions).

One thing that EE does not have is the ability to integrate 3rd party plug-ins. For example, I love Visual Assist X from Whole Tomato: it is a plug-in that improves code editing productivity and experience a lot, in my opinion. This is the URL:

http://www.wholetomato.com/

Well, you can't install VAX on VS2008 EE.
There are also other quality plug-ins for Visual Studio, like ReSharper (for C#), but they just don't integrate in EE.

Moreover, with VC++2008 EE you have neither ATL nor MFC support.
You can just use Win32 Platform SDK. I think that ATL and MFC are important tools for professional native C++ development for Windows, so it is a big miss.

Instead, with EE you have the same quality C++ compiler that comes with the commercial versions, and you have STL and templates available.


Also does the Visual C++ 2008 Express
Edition free download have everything the VC++ 2006 did?

I don't know about VC++ 2006...
If you mean VC++6, it offered MFC, which is not offered by VC++2008 EE...
However, the C++ compiler that comes with VC++2008 EE is a big improvement over the old VC++6 compiler, especially if your C++ code uses templates a lot.

Giovanni

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