I figured that if I’m going to take a C++ class for the finance industry, I should get on the Windows bandwagon, and not with an open source port. Instead, I went with Microsoft Visual C++ Express, which is a free version of Microsoft’s IDE, and will almost certainly do what I need to do.
I did have a problem installing it the Visual Express 2008, which caused me to initially backtrack to the 2005 version. The error I was getting was being thrown during the unpacking of the installer. It was:
setup has encountered a problem while trying to copy $shtdwn$.req
It turns out the system was installing the temp files onto my Linux Ext3 drives and this was generating an error (probably relating to permissions). When I disabled the Linux IFS driver (or, really, unmapped the drives manually) and ran the install, it went fine, as the temp files went onto my NTFS drive C.
Nothing gets a person quite as riled up as having the tools to create something… that’s how I feel now that I have a Visual C++ IDE ready to go…
