The Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library provides an object-oriented wrapper over much of the Win32 and COM APIs.

Win32++ is a C++ library used to build windows applications. Win32++ is a free alternative to MFC.

Basically, you can think of AGG as of a rendering engine that produces pixel images in memory from some vectorial data. But of course, AGG can do much more than that.

Dynamic Draw is a vector graphics editor. It is useful for making flowcharts, line drawings, org charts, buttons, etc. It is an object-oriented drawing and design program. It has intelligent linking system.

SolidGraph is a full-featured system for 3D modeling of highly complex geometric objects. Sooner or later, everyone who works with computer graphics feels necessary to write his own editor.

Traditionally, Windows applications are built upon the GDI/User windowing hierarchy, and thus restricted in several areas. While you can certainly generate a nice application quickly with the built-in control-set and get a standard clean look, you will soon enough stumble upon the limitations of the Windows controls - especially if you want to build something that looks a little more flashy.

CodezBank is just a small application that stores source code snippets organized in a hierarchical manner with basic search ability.

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. The Visual Studio IDE is a creative launching pad that you can use to edit, debug, and build code, and then publish an app.