Is there a reason that you would need Visual C++ .NET? I’m taking a C++ course in school, and was wondering if I could use notepad or something (preferably free) to write my code and just save the text file as .cpp and then take it to school to compile or compile it with an external compiler.
I don’t need support for huge linked scripts or anything, I’m just learning. But would this be feasable to write C++ programs without .NET?
