free visual developer's kit

[Zacharia.cd]

I just wondering if anyone knew of a developer's kit that adds visual buttons and such in a C++ application. I am running on a budget and would like to have a visual replacement. Tryed Qt but I don't have visual C++ or borland. I don't really want to have two evaluation demos running. I did try visual C++ but couldn't find the actual studio. Could someone give me a link to a real free visual program or just a tutorial on how to do it?

I'd be grateful

[AndreasV]

Uhmm.. what about doing it the hardway if you are on a tight budget?

Just get yourself a C (or C++) compiler, download the platform SDK for free and you can play around with all the WINAPI's?

[Zacharia.cd]

i never really figured out a way to "do it the hard way" THere's no tutorials online that I can find. I don't have amazing skills with C++ but have done about the equivalent of 2 semesters of college on it from just books at the library. I would really like a tutorial on doing this. THat's actually what I wanted really.

[TheBigB]

well if you're willing to pay for shipping you can get the ms visual studio 2005 beta 2 for just shipping charges at http://getthebetas.com. i think it includes some info on how to use vc++ in there.

[djwilliams]

you can get the VS2005 beta for FREE ...just download it from labs.msdn.microsoft.com

there are no limitations on the compiles iether.

[ihartmacz]

Cool... But you can go open source with the GCC compiler. You don't have to be a nexpert to use either...

go get Dev-C++ from http://www.bloodhed.net/dev and get the latest!

it comes with GCC 3.4.2 and GCC 4.0 for it should be in the next beta.

[Saladin]

Visial Studio 2005 Express Edition is free (its intended for students and hobbyists, so on release it will either stay free or have a very low price)