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Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is a compiler for the C, C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX programming languages by Microsoft.MSVC is proprietary software; it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of Visual Studio and made available in both trialware and freeware forms.
Previously, the WDK was known as the Driver Development Kit (DDK) [4] and supported Windows Driver Model (WDM) development. It got its current name when Microsoft released Windows Vista and added the following previously separated tools to the kit: Installable File System Kit (IFS Kit), Driver Test Manager (DTM), though DTM was later renamed and removed from WDK again.
Advanced Installer Advanced Installer: Active Trialware: Yes Yes Yes NSIS: Nullsoft: Active zlib License: No No Orca (Part of Windows SDK) Microsoft: Active Freeware (proprietary) Yes; exclusively Wise: Wise Solutions, Inc. Discontinued Non-free No WiX: Outercurve Foundation: Active Ms-RL (previously CPL) Yes; exclusively Yes No
Windows Installer (msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, [3] codename Darwin) [4] [5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software.
WiX is a toolset designed to build Windows Installer (.msi) packages using the command line. [4] It comes with the following tools: [5] [4] [7] Candle: compiles source files into object files; Light: combines object files into a .msi file; Lit: creates libraries that can be linked by Light.exe; Dark: decompiles a .msi file into WiX code
These libraries can, however, be installed from an older version of the Windows SDK and Windows Driver Kit, [13] or a Visual Studio Trial installation. Lack of a resource editor, which is available in commercial editions of Visual Studio. [14] No profiling support. No support for add-ins or IDE macros. No option for crash dump generation.
One quirk of MFC is the use of "Afx" as the prefix for many functions, macros and the standard precompiled header name "stdafx.h". During early development, what became MFC was called "Application Framework Extensions" and abbreviated "Afx".
The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is a legacy software utility for the Microsoft Windows operating system designed to solve installation problems of apps that use the Windows Installer technology. An app whose Windows Installer entries are damaged cannot be uninstalled or reinstalled via the normal means.