Thanks Mooglyguy. For the last 8 years I've been programming in PHP and I use VSCode for PHP development. I don't have any of the C\C++ plugins installed. When I get home from work I'm too knackered to do C++ development. When we used ASP.NET at work the last version we used was VS2010 for ASP.NET 4.0
I had heard of the community edition especially for Web Development but for C++ I didn't realise that you could build a redistributable exe with it. i.e. Microsoft would always want you to buy Visual Studio.
I still use Visual Studio 6 to compile my C++ demos.