Introducing the Visual Studio IDE (C++)

The Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) offers a set of tools that help you write and modify code, and also detect and correct errors.

In these topics, you create a new standard C++ program and test its functionality by using features available in Visual Studio for the C++ developer. The simple program you create will track how many players are playing different card games.

This walkthrough covers the following:

• Walkthrough: Working with Projects and Solutions (C++)

• Walkthrough: Building a Project (C++)

• Walkthrough: Testing a Project (C++)

• Walkthrough: Debugging a Project (C++)

• Walkthrough: Deploying Your Program (C++)

Prerequisites

This topic assumes that you understand the fundamentals of the C++ language.

Next Steps

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See Also

Tasks

Visual C++ Guided Tour

Other Resources

Application Development in Visual Studio