Visual C++ is just the product name, it's branding. It has no functional meaning beyond that. As for the standards, there's pretty good partial support for C++

Visual C++ is just the product name, it's branding. It has no functional meaning beyond that. As for the standards, there's pretty good partial support for C++11/14/17. One fairly recent blog post by them has some tables. [1] [1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-update-2s-stl-is-c17-so-far-feature-complete/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-u...