Re: Should a hobbyist upgrade from Visual Studio C++ NET 2003?

Will Visual C++ 2010 Express be enough to help compile my little
macro recorder better than my current Visual Studio NET 2003
Standard?

I use a systemwide hook written in Visual C++, a macro recorder,
that must be regularly edited/modified. I took the (MFC?) stuff
from a professional programmer's example and stripped away
everything that seemed unnecessary. It has worked great for many
years. I use Visual Studio C++ to change the main code and then
rebuild/recompile it. For debugging, I use Dbgview from
Sysinternals/Microsoft.

I do the easy C++ stuff like for() else() switch(), and non-window
function stuff like searching for characters in a string, getting
the mouse position, but I know very little about the outer stuff
that makes the program work with Windows.

Besides trying to keep up-to-date with that stuff, I do not want
to get so far behind that the current edition of Visual Studio
cannot automatically update my program files.

Thanks.

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