Visual C++ vs Visual C# , which is the best to learn? [closed]

Answer 1

Visual C++ and Visual C# are not languages nor GUI frameworks; they are Integrated Development Environments - IDEs. This means they are text editors tailored to the task of development.

Visual C++ lets you code in C++, Visual C# lets you code in C#. Also, both let you create GUIs in a point-and-click manner.

Sounds like what you really want to do is create GUIs. In that case, without having further information, I recommend you go for C#. It is a much cleaner language than C++, it has fewer ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and it provides access to the immensely useful .NET framework.

C# features that C++ doesn't have:

• Fully automatic memory management
• Lambda functions¹
• Type inference¹
• Reflection
• Remoting
• Automatic serialization
• True entity types
• Properties
• Database integration via LINQ
• Convenient functional-style programming via LINQ
• No header files
• No undefined behavior
• Direct interoperability with many languages
• Compile once, run everywhere

¹ these features have been added to C++ in the C++11 standard.

C++ features that C# doesn't have

• Template metaprogramming
• Typedefs
• Zero-overhead principle
• Means to enforce const-correctness
• Mature compilers that produce extremely optimized code nowadays
• Much wider platform support

Answer 2

C# is largely intended for Business Applications so as Java. Visual C# is Microsoft's implementation of the C# programming language specification, included in the Microsoft Visual Studio suite of products.

C# is much slower than C++, since the code passes through CLR. VC++.net has the same drawback.

VC++ is very hard to learn, so as MFC and windows programming, even though you know C++. But is it a prestigious and efficient language.

It is easy to switch from VC++ to VC#. But the reverse is harder.

If you go for VC++, MFC and Windows programming, try this.