Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

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Does anyone have any experience with the free Microsoft development enviroment called Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

I have downloaded and installed it and I notice it is a lot different than what I am used to.

Is MFC gone? If you click on New to create a New Project, the only options I see a tree to the left side are:

CLR
Win32
General

What is CLR? What happened to MFC? I found MFC had problems anyway. But what has replaced it?

[jonnin]

MFC is alive and well last I heard, although it is supposed to be slowly going away (?).

See if you can do win32 and add mfc in a checkbox or something. I have not used express but probably you can do something along those lines.

[Danny]

You can safely ignore the CLR option so long as you're using real C++.
MFC is still there under Win32.