A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)
A visual history of Visual C++ 04 Mar 2017 Visual C++ was Microsoft’s implementation of a professional Windows hosted IDE for developing Windows software. From humble beginnings, it’s grown into a very versatile, popular, and powerful tool. I used every version of Visual C++ since 1.0, and thought I’d collect some Visual C++ screenshots and comments on these versions. Visual C++ 1.x Visual C++ 1.0/1.5 (16-bit)Visual C++ 1.1 (32-bit) Minimum (official) host OS versionWindows 3.1Windows NT 3.1 Minimum (official) target OS versionWindows 3.1Windows NT 3.1/Win32s 1.1 CRT DLLN/AMSVCRT10.DLL Visual C++ 1.0 was the first release of Visual C++, released in 1993 for 16 bit development. Version 1.5 was released later as a 16 bit development tool, and there was also a Visual C++ 1.1 for 32 bit…
