I have seen a web page in which sombody has used the visual C's IDE for compiling some other C file.Basically the IDE is making a MAKE file and this MAKE file is given to the compiler and it invokes the compiler.So i think that we must be able to use the visual C's IDE & editor only and it will generate the MAKE file(As in the case of keil this file is called the project file i think.)So i hope it must be possible.

Thanks,
S.Sheik mohamed