No, you use whatever you want, in practice C is more used than C++ and C code is compiled with the C compiler, not C++ compiler. The tools used to build Window

No, you use whatever you want, in practice C is more used than C++ and C code is compiled with the C compiler, not C++ compiler. The tools used to build Windows, including compilers, are available as the free Windows Driver Kit (WDK): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487428 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487428 Sometimes the compiler versions match those of the current Visual Studio release, but not always.