I need some help, what would everybody out there recommend for a C++ Compiler. I am thinking about paying $110 for Visual C++ "Standard". Does anybody know if this software is great and what are the best features of it. Other recommendations are also welcome.

>Does anybody know if this software is great
It works fine for my purposes.

>what are the best features of it
It works fine for my purposes.

>Other recommendations are also welcome.
Borland C++ 5.5 and Dev-C++ are both free and good quality.

You might want to look into Visual C++ Express. The beta version of this "student edition" is still free at:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/

Thanks for all the help

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

here is the website u can download compiler
go find dev C++ 4.9.9.0 compiler and download it
i find this compiler is very useful for beginner

I'll check into it, thanks.

Alright, back with the results. I am currently working on the Visual C++ 2005 Express Beta right now, its nice so thanks for the link. Hope to buy the whole thing for Christmas.

Does anybody know if Microsoft Visual Studio is for C++ program building and VBScript building and a combo of all of that.

What is Visual Studio for?

Visual Studio includes not only VC++ but also C#, J# and Visual BASIC.
VBScript is included in MS Office, maybe in Visual Studio as well (it's pretty generic in MS products as a macro language).

Depending on the version of VS you purchase it may also include things like Interdev, Visual Source Safe, MSSQL Server (development license) and other tools.

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ for details.

There IS a difference between the C++ compilers in the standard and Pro (included with VS) products. The compiler in VC++ Standard is not an optimising compiler meaning that optimisation options aren't available.
This is no problem for learning and small applications (unless performance critical) but for larger and performance critical applications you will want the optimising compiler from the full VS at least for your final (deployment) build.

So really, Visual Studio is a combination of them all right?

I am using the Visual C++ Express 2005 BETA, and its a bit hard and takes a lot of memory charge, anybody else tried it yet with this? Its great, but moves slow.