how to learn it?

hi
Years ago i was programming beginner games and apps with borland builder1, it was part of a book. Now I′d like to pick up that hobby again but that old ide crashes on xp and other people could not use my programms - well its very old. So here is this free c++ express but even with some experience with a visual ide like this I it would take me hours to find simple things like how do I tell button1 to put text xy into label1... I see single videos and articles that are not related to each other and the help opens a lot of text that takes hours again to search through. I bought a visual c++ 6 book which was VERY stupid but from HOW much it differs from the express version, am I right to assume that a book on Visual c++ 2005 would not help me either?
I quess I will go back to the old builder, but maybe I am missing something here so I thought I′ll ask.
Thank you very much!
[897 byte] By [pixelstuff] at [2007-12-24]
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MSDN is the most detailed reference that you need. There are not only documents, but many useful sample codes and articles as well. I assrue you will enjoy it.

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