Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition

C. Getting Started with Visual Studio

“The universe is not only queererthan we imagine,it’s queerer than we can imagine.”

—J. B. S. Haldane

This appendix explains the steps you have to go through to enter a program, compile it, and have it run using Microsoft Visual Studio.

C.1 Getting a program to run

C.2 Installing Visual Studio

C.3 Creating and running a program

C.3.1 Create a new project

C.3.2 Use the std_lib_facilities.h header file

C.3.3 Add a C++ source file to the project

C.3.4 Enter your source code

C.3.5 Build an executable program

C.3.6 Execute the program

C.3.7 Save the program

C.4 Later

C.1 Getting a program to run

To get a program to run, you need to somehow place the files together (so that when a file refers to another — e.g., ...