I've been using it for a couple of years, it compiles C and C++ and comes with all of the standard includes. It also comes with standard templates for console apps, windows apps, dlls etc.
I've never had any major problems or complaints with it so far -- Posted: 2005-05-28 14:50:38 Edit :
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@masseur
"Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Beta is currently available for download free of charge from Microsoft's site. It allows you to create programs for the .NET framework, and possibly also native Win32 programs (with the help of the separately downloaded Microsoft Windows Platform SDK ( http://www.microsoft.com/down[....]f3-7ab010b398a3&DisplayLang=en ) )."