From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 16 May 2005 22:34:04 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>anything written with the .NET version of visual studio will require the
>framework so in order to write a C++ program that does't require it you
>would have to use visual studio 6 or earlier. (at least that's how I
>understand it)

   VS2003 includes the development environment for both managed and
unmanaged C++ code so you don't need VS6 in order to develop classic C++
Win32 programs.

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