I do use GCC and Cygwin often and also use Dev-Cpp on many occasions but for this project I can only use Mircosoft... Now is the .NET stuff like the 6.0 version but just a new version....?

The thing I'm trying to work on is compatible with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and I wanna make sure that it will work with .NET as well.....

Also... is there any _real_ reason NOT to use the BETA 2005?