I would third that. Go with C# if you want to do managed code and if you have any performance critical code create some native c++ code in a dll. Richard

I'll bite, what do the internal MS developers use for an IDE? Eclipse :-)

Great words of advice, my biggest pive these days is to pick up code with no comments and have to figure out what the programmer was trying to do. Many times it is faster to rewrite than to spend time playing with uncommented code.