XNA Game Studio 4.0
Nevermind, I did it.
You can download latest version of Visual Studio from microsoft.com
I don't know if it is compatible with Vista but it is NOT compatible with Microsoft Money Plus, which is the latest version of money, and Avanquest will not give an update to make it compatible. They insist you buy the latest version of Checksoft.
No. Visual C++ Express is free, but Visual Studio C++ must be bought. The Express edition is a subset of the Studio release.
Visual C++ 6.0 is more than 16 years old. It is no longer available to buy and it was never available for free. The current version is Visual C++ 2013.
The express edition's C++ implementation is no different to the visual studio implementation. It is the exact same language.
The simple answer is yes, it works in both.
Nobody discovered MS VC++ 6.0. It was developed by Microsoft (hence the abbreviation MS) and was first released by them in 1998. It has been superseded several times since then, with VC++ version 7 (2002), 7.1 (2003), 8 (2005), 9 (2008), 10 (2010) and now version 11 (2012).
Once you have the Visual Studio program open, go to File->New Project and select the language you want to write your program in. If one or more languages do not appear, you probably didn't choose to have them installed when you installed Visual Studio.
Microsoft developed Visual C++.
The complete history of Visual C++ can be found in the "Visual C++" article in Wikipedia.
Yes. Microsoft Visual C++ is the correct name, but it is often abbreviated to MSVC++ or just VC++. They are all the same.