Visual Studio C++ (Windows)

dominover1

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I'm a little confused about the Visual Studio C++ compiler.
I went to download and install Visual Studio C++ today and a message came up telling me I already have a more updated version on my computer. Not sure how this is as I never installed it.

I have Windows XP.

Is it installed in Windows XP? If so, how do I use it.
Is it the Visual Studio C++ IDE which I have to pay for?
Very confused.
Thanks
 
what version of visual studio did you download?
if you look in your installed programs you probably already have C++ runtime re-distributable. -these may be more up to date than whatever version of visual studio you downloaded.

of course, the next question is, where did you download Visual studio from??
 
As root said, I'd be willing to bet you're downloading the visual C++ runtime rather than visual studio!
 
Thanks, but what I'm asking is, why is there Visual Studio on my PC?
I didn't install it.. Does that mean it was built in to windows?

Visual Studio likely *isn't* on your PC. The Visual C++ Runtime is something that often comes with your PC, yes, and is used to run C++ applications that may have been developed in Visual Studio. Big difference.
 
how do you use visual studio?

that rather depends on the version of virtual studio that you downloaded, and what language you want to write code in.
 
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