Jerry,

Thanks for your reply. Since you mentioned "signing up" for MSDN Universal, I assume it's decidedly NOT free. Actually, I neither had nor have any intentions of stealing commercial software; I'm looking for honest-to-goodness FREE software. I use a totally free compiler that I downloaded from delorie.com to compile C and C++ programs under Windows 9x (through DOS). But I haven't been able to find any free compilers for visual programming languages. Hence my post here. I hope I haven't brought your chagrin upon myself; I realize that my original post was somewhat vague.

So, here's a better question: is there such a thing as a free visual C++ compiler?

Thanks again,
Tony

ps - What I wouldn't give to live in CO... as a mountain biker who has visited there, I find the trails in southeastern PA so disappointing in comparison.