What's Included in the Visual C++ Professional Edition?

The Professional Edition of Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 provides features that let you develop and distribute commercial-quality software products.

The Professional Edition includes the following features (see the Visual C++ Documentation Map for another high-level look at the Visual C++ product):

Programming Features

• Microsoft Foundation Classes
  
  
• Active Template Library
  
  
• Support for Common Controls in Internet Explorer
  
  
• Compiler COM Support
  
  
• OLE DB Provider and Consumer Templates
  
  
• Component Object Model (COM)
  
  
• Active Document Containment
  
  
• Samples
  
  
• C/C++ Run-Time Libraries

The Internet

• Internet Server API (ISAPI) Extensions
  
  
• CHttpConnection (and other CHttp* MFC classes)
  
  
• CInternetConnection (and other CInternet* MFC classes)

ActiveX Controls

• Composite Control Fundamentals
  
  
• Developing MFC ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Developing ATL ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Ready-to-Use ActiveX Controls

Project Features

• Wizard Support for Creating Applications
  
  
• Integrated Development Environment and more IDE topics
  
  
• Debugging Your Application
  
  
• Source Code Profiler
  
  
• Component and Object Gallery
  
  
• InstallShield

Optimizations

• Inline Optimizing of Your Code
  
  
• Compiler Optimization Options
  
  
• Linker Optimizations (/OPT)
  
  
• C++ Exception Handling

Database Support

• ActiveX Controls for Databinding
  
  
• ADO
  
  
• Read-only versions of Microsoft Visual Database Tools (Enterprise Edition has full-feature Visual Database Tools)

See Also

Visual C++ Editions

Comparison Chart of Features in Each Edition

What's New for Visual C++ Version 6.0?

What’s Included in the Visual C++ Enterprise Edition?

What’s Included in the Standard Edition?