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Free Compilers and Tools
| Code::Blocks |
Code::Blocks is an IDE for C/C++. It includes the MinGW
port of GCC, and also supports the MS Visual Toolkit, and the free command
line compiler from Borland.
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| Dev-C++ |
Dev-C++ is
a Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C/C++. It includes
the MinGW port of GCC as it's compiler. |
| GDIView |
A utility that displays list a
of GDI handles used by each process. It's useful for spotting GDI
leaks. |
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grepWin |
grepWin is a multi-file text
search and replace tool. It can use regular expressions for its search and
replace. |
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MediaInfo |
A utility that retrieves the
technical and tag data for video and audio files. |
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Microsoft Visual Community |
A free C++ Win32 compiler and
IDE from Microsoft. It includes the DirectX11 and Windows 7 SDKs, as well
as the C++ and Windows API documentation. |
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Notepad++ |
Notepad++ is a free source code
editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. |
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Nullsoft Scriptable Install
System |
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install
System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. |
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PeaZip |
PeaZip is a free file archiver
utility. It can open and create archives for many popular formats, including
7-zip, rar, tar and zip. |
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Pixelformer |
Pixelformer is a bitmap editor,
specifically optimized for creating, modifying, and converting small and
medium-sized images, such as icons, buttons, web graphics, sprites, etc. |
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Resource Hacker |
A freeware resource compiler and
decompiler for Windows® applications.
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Visual Leak Detector |
An open-source memory leak
detection system for Visual C++. |
Tutorials and References
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MSDN Library |
The Microsoft Developers
Network. Microsoft's online reference. |
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About Messages and Message Queues |
The section in MSDN describing
the messages available in Windows. |
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MS
Platform SDK |
Provides the documentation,
samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop
Windows applications (XP and below). |
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MS Windows SDK |
Provides the documentation,
samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop
Windows applications (Vista and above). |
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MS DirectX SDK |
Contains the additional header
files and libraries for DirectX programming. |
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GitHub |
A platform for developers to
create and store and manage their code. |
| SourceForge |
SourceForge hosts a large
collection of open source projects. |
| Code Project |
Forums and Code samples for
software developers. |
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Go4Expert |
A forum for C, Win32, C++, MFC,
C# developers. |
| the Forger |
A Win32 tutorial for
C++.
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Get Started with Win32 and C++ |
A Win32 tutorial from Microsoft. |
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Google |
Internet Search Engine. |
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Wikipedia |
Web based encyclopedia. |
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C++ FAQ |
C++ Frequently Asked Questions | |