When working in Visual C++ you have whole set of MFC classes at your disposal. MFC is a very powerful set of classes through which you can do everything from designing an user interface to high level back end programming.<br>
Also Visual C++ provides visual tools to develop User interface quickly and easily.<br>
As far as coding is concerned basics are same for the both, unless you use MFC.<br>
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