Re: VC++ 6.0 vs VC++ 8.0
verappan wrote:
I am a fresher in VC++ and I joined a new company where the
development environment is Visual Studio 6.0.
I asked to our team about upgrading 6.0 to 8.0 and I don't get a good
reponse for that.
The project manager told that there no much difference between 6.0 and
8.0.
That rings an alert bell. VC6 even predates the C++ standard and in many
aspects doesn't adhere to it. It's not supported by the vendor any longer,
too. I'd expect such a statement from someone who doesn't know much C++ and
for sure is not up to date with his or her knowledge of it.
Also I got the information from other team members that, if the
application is developed in VC++ 6.0, then there will not be much
dependencies on the output EXE and no need to install .Net Runtime
environment to run the EXE.
You also don't need a .Net runtime when developing with VC8, unless of
course you want to.
Uli
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