Wow. I am astonished at this statement. What do you mean you cannot find anything helpful? I find that soooo hard to believe. I found hepful links by googling this thread's title! Granted, not very C++ oriented, but still. Plus, I bet that if I look up "c++ where to learn gui" I would get more accurate results.
visual c++ is GUI oriented. also i hope you mean 2010 i dont think there is a 2011 version yet..
But yeah the visual c++ is alot of .net programming - really helps to set up quick gui forms, but its not meant for games if thats what you are interested (It might handle some super duper basic games). Let me know if you still dont know where to start and ill show you more detailed