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VS stands for Microsoft Visual Studio, the latest version has come to 2019, is a big development environment that includes many high-level language development environment, VC just VS One development environment
VC stands for Microsoft Visual C ++, Microsoft out an integrated the C / C ++ development environments, more classic version is 97 years out of the Microsoft Visual C ++ 6.0, the author uses as a development environment VS2017
Correspondence between VC and VS version
VC11 is the eleventh edition of Visual C ++ is a runtime released together with Visual studio 2012 in 2012 is necessary to run Visual studio 2012 library, as is the version number in parentheses is the VS, the left is the VC version
VC6
VC7 ( 2003)
VC8 (2005)
VC9 (2008)
VC10 (2010)
VC11 (2012)
VC12 (2013)
VC14 (2015)
VC15 (2017)
Therefore, C: \ Users \ Administrator \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft \ VisualStudio lower directories exist
in multiple different folders, in the case of mounting a plurality of VS
8.0
9.0
10.0
11.0
12.0
14.0
15.0
Note that the 12 VC12 VC refers to a version number, corresponding to the C ++ compiler is 18