Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual C++ is a coding environment made by Microsoft, mainly used for coding in C and C++. The software provides helpful tools for programmers, such as a debugging tool to help find bugs in written code. The program is available in both trial and free versions.
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 1993[1] |
| Stable release | 14.16.27012.6 / November 15, 2018 |
| Written in | C++[2] |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 and ARM |
| Available in | English, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Turkish |
| Type | IDE |
| License | Trialware and freeware |
| Website | docs |
Some programs require the Visual C++ library package to be installed on the computer in order to run in the first place.
The previous version of Visual C++ was called Microsoft C/C++, originally used to compile code written in C. The first version of Microsoft Visual C++ was officially released in February of 1993.
The product was first created as an environment for C programming, however it only supported the original C library rather than the C99 revision. In 2013, Visual C++ included support for various C99 features, however it was not until 2015 that Visual C++ included full support of the C99 standard library. The C11 revision that replaced the C99 revision is still not supported in recent versions of Visual C++, however the company has plans to add them in future versions.
References
- ↑ Visual C++ adds Windows support. February 22, 1993. p. 17. https://books.google.com/books?id=vjsEAAAAMBAJ.
- ↑ Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2010.