Major Changes in Visual C++ Releases

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/.NET Framework 1.1

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Visual C++ Concepts: Porting and Upgrading

Visual C++ undergoes major changes from release to release. Read the following topics for more information about the changes to Visual C++ and in which release the changes were the changes.

In This Section

Major Changes from Visual C++ 6.0 to Visual C++ .NET: Describes the major changes in this release.
Major Changes from Visual C++ 5.0 to 6.0: Describes the major changes in this release.
Major Changes from Visual C++ 4.2 to 5.0: Describes the major changes in this release.
Major Changes from Visual C++ 4.0 to 4.2: Describes the major changes in this release.
Visual C++ 6.0 Default Shortcut Keys: Provides a list of the default shortcut key mappings for Visual C++ 6.0.
Visual C++ 2.0 Default Shortcut Keys: Provides a list of the default shortcut key mappings for Visual C++ 2.0.

Related Sections

What's New in Visual Studio .NET 2003: Provides links to topics describing new features in Visual Studio .NET 2003.
Porting and Upgrading: Provides links to topics describing how to create your projects for portability to other languages and platforms and how to upgrade your projects to conform to the current release of Visual C++.
Customizing Shortcut Keys: Describes how to customize shortcut keys in Visual Studio.