want to get into visual C++

hi, I've been meaning to getting around to learning visual C++ and have visual C++ v6 lying around... well, I want to get start learning it ASAP... I've been holding it off for too long, and after the depressing stuff that has recently happened in my life I've decided I need to keep trying to get somewhere....
so anywho, could anyone direct me to some good starter tutorials for visual C++? I really hafta start from the ground up... I have alot of the nehe tutorials of openGL, but I really want to actually start with text stuff, then plotting pixels, 2d stuff, raycasters and so on like I started out in QBASIC... it was fun and I sorta miss learning new things like that.
well, of course I just want really really basic tutorials... so... can anyone direct me?
thanx for any help anyone can give :)

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/

After that, find a tutorial on the C++ STL.

I agree with octothorpe.
But last time I heard vc++6 had a non-standard implementation of the STL.
Why don't you use Mingw instead?

I have a really good book on OpenGL programming. Andre LaMothe is the author. Have a search for it on Amazon. It's a bit dated now but all the topics you mentioned are covered and in such a way as to be very easily understandable.