   Being plunged into VC development environment, need pointers
  On Friday, I will participate in a c++ contest where one part of the contest is to make a program of some sorts.  To this point (I've been programming for about 3 years in c++), I've used devc++ and mingw very successfully and, becuase of my financial situation, dont have the funds to dole out $100 for visual studio to get visual c++.  The computers that the contest supplies, however, have both visual studio and borland installed. My question is that from going from devc++ to visual c++, is there anything specific that I need to know about devc++, such as bad habits picked up, etc, that will hinder me when using visual c++ development environment?Is it all basically the same? To start a new project, you go to file and give it a name and such? Compiling is only a click away, etc?Any input would be appreciated.   
  You have 2 days to learn it.  Go download VC++2005 Express Edition - it's free AND awesome.  Write yourself a chat client or something to get used to it.   ;  Unfortunately I have a 56k modem that tops out at 28.8   ;  devc++ isn't so diffrent from vc, they are practicly the same when you first start eather. you just start new win32 project or something. the problems occurs when your try to use MFC. then vc-s IDE transforms and it's not like Devc++.   