futureaussiecto 0 Newbie Poster

Hey guys, im about to write an application which has a visual GUI doing representation of a system (lots of pretty colours and flashing objects etc), which represent what is happening with packets and external devices being inserted into the system.

I need to use one of the Win32 APIs, "Windows Filtering Platform", so what would be better to use, Visual C++ or C++? Also, as i am not quite sure between the difference, what is it?

In the past i have done GUIs using java (repaint(), canvas etc) and wondered is it pretty much the same in C++?

Thanks