What Is Visual C++ used for?

I'm wondering if I should get Visual C++ (Visual Studio) and I've looked around and sites say that it's used to make Windows programs? Is the main objective of Visual C++ different than regular c++ IDE's such as Dev C++ to make programs? I can't figure out how to make a program from scratch on a free trial version of Visual C++. Well, any info is great.

What Is Visual C++ used for?
Visual C++ helps the user create programs. Dev C++ does the same, they are both the same language program, just different program.





Kind of like OpenOffice and Microsoft Word.





In order to make a program from scratch you need to learn how to program in language C.





There are many ebooks out there and tutorials.


You need to start out my a simple Hello World program.





Here are some tutorial sites:





http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/CTutorial/CTu...


http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/cbook/ht...


http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.htm...


http://www.howstuffworks.com/c.htm


http://www.physics.drexel.edu/courses/Co...
Reply:It's for programs like Windows Movie Maker, Windows DVD Maker, and etc. I use it for windows movie maker. You have to use xmls for that though. But it's just for programs that read those formats you can make in it. But if you know the coding for it you could somehow make a program.


But


%26lt;Param name="[Type Of Thing]" value="[Such as a number in decimal format like 1.0]" /%26gt;


Is a line for XML.


That's all I'm giving you for an answer!





A Free Trial version of C++? Weird. Microsoft gave you a serial for it and you put it in at Help%26gt;Register Product.