Editing Microsoft Visual C++ (section)

{{Short description|Integrated development environment product}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Visual C++
| logo = Visual_Studio_Icon_2022.svg
| developer = [[Microsoft]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1993|02}}<ref name="Visual C++ adds Windows support">{{cite news |title = Visual C++ adds Windows support |newspaper = InfoWorld |date = February 22, 1993 |page = 17 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vjsEAAAAMBAJ }}</ref>
| latest release version = 14.40.33816
| programming language = [[C++]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html |title=The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0 |first=Vincent |last=Lextrait |date=January 2010 |access-date=14 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530/http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html |archive-date=30 May 2012 }}</ref>
| operating system = [[Windows]]
| platform = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]] and [[ARM architecture|ARM]]
| language = English, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Turkish
| genre = [[Compiler]]
| license = [[Trialware]] and [[freeware]]
| website = {{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/}}
}}

'''Microsoft Visual C++''' ('''MSVC''') is a compiler for the [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[C++/CLI]] and [[C++/CX]] [[programming language]]s by [[Microsoft]]. MSVC is [[proprietary software]]; it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of [[Microsoft Visual Studio|Visual Studio]] and made available in both [[trialware]] and [[freeware]] forms. It features tools for [[Software development|developing]] and [[debugging]] C++ code, especially code written for the [[Windows API]], [[DirectX]] and [[.NET Framework|.NET]].

Many [[application software|applications]] require [[redistributable]] Visual C++ runtime library packages to function correctly. These packages are frequently installed separately from the applications they support, enabling multiple applications to use the package with only a single installation. These Visual C++ redistributable and runtime packages are mostly installed for standard [[Library (computing)|libraries]] that many applications use.<ref name="askleo">[http://ask-leo.com/do_i_need_these_microsoft_visual_c_redistributables.html "Do I need these Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables?"]. Ask Leo!. Retrieved 2012-11-18.</ref>