How do I get interactive Visual C++ software to learn VC++ of my own
without using a book ?

Personally the only book I read when I was moving from Turbo C++ to
Visual C++ is "Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold. I learned MFC
basics from reading MSDN articles, namely the Visual C++
Tutorials(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vctutor98/html/tutorhm.asp)
and MFC tech notes (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_MFCNOTES_Technical_Notes.asp),
and the source code of MFC.

Regards
Sheng Jiang
Microsoft MVP in Visual C++

It depends on exactly what do you want to learn in VC. You could do 2
types of programming (in layman terms) - one using Win32API
programming and the other using MFC (Microsoft Foundation classes). I
preferred Win32 API programming and found it much more extensive and
cool (as per me) vis-a-vis MFC. In MFC, all I used to do is extend
from existing MFC classes and get my job done. Never found programming
in MFC challenging (or probably never got to do good work in MFC)..

for Win32 API, one of the better books is by Charles Petzold as
mentioned in the above comment. For MFC, again all I did was to look
up some of my friends books and scraped through.