I think I know what you are talking about. When you create a visual C++ MFC app in vs2005, it gives you all these context menus and the basics, but it does not give you a form for the main window to edit like c# or VB.
You can fix this if you want. You can actually specify it to be a CFormView instead of a CForm. CFormView is the "visual" part of visual C++.
Go Here:
http://www.functionx.com/visualc/controls/forms.htm
Look at number 6 of that tutorial. In the last tab of the wizard, you choose the properties of #6 in the tutorial. Change the Base class to a CFormView.
Unfortunately, I don't know any other IDE's to help, but hopefully this post is what you are talking about.
Your main form will be editable like this:
http://img490.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ntitled4xd.png