Visual C++

I need to learn Visual C++ in a very short period of time, are there any websites or books that would get me up in running in a very limited amount of time. I need sort of a crash course in the language.

Thanks to all that reply.

You can't learn C++ in a short time :p

You can start with the FAQ, and tutorials at places like www.cplusplus.com, etc.

Note: C++ != Visual C++. The latter is just a development environment.

Oh, and don't even think about writing Windows programs just yet, you need to stick on the console for a while first :D

a comma invaded the link parksie :p

http://www.cplusplus.com/

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I need to learn Visual C++ in a very short period of time

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lol, im just into learning vc++ after spending ages learning console stuff and i still have problems just writing the console code, c++ isnt an easy language and with all the funtions envolved in creating windows apps it makes it a long haul..... good luck :)

If you are an absolute guru in C, you can probably become very conversant in C++ in a few months as long as you avoid windows programming, which will make your head hurt worse than you even want to think about. As Parksie said, stick with console apps.

If you don't know C quite well, then attempting to learn C++ in a "short period of time" in anything but the most superficial fashion is just a silly concept.

What languages do you know. Why the need to learn it so quickly? Are you taking over someone else's code?

Just as a quick FYI, C++ programming style is very different to C. Syntactically you can write C in C++, but you should do things differently:

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/new_learning.pdf