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Getting Started with C++

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Objective

You will be able to create, compile, and run a very simple C++ program on Windows, using Visual Studio 2008

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Start Up Visual Studio 2008Click

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Visual Studio Projects

A project in Visual Studio is a container for all of the files needed to compile, execute, and debug a program.

A solution can consist of multiple related projects.

Our solutions will only have a single project. So a solution and a project will be essentially

equivalent in this course.

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Ready to Create a Project

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Creating a C++ Project in Visual Studio 2008

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Creating a C++ Project in Visual Studio 2008

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Creating a C++ Project in Visual Studio 2008

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Start with an Empty Project

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We Have a Project

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Adding a Source File to the Project

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Adding a Source File to the Project

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It's Open in the Editor

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Add the Program Code

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View the Solution Explorer

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Solution Explorer Window

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Compile and Link the Program

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Run the Program

Click here to run

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Program "hello.cpp" in Action

Press "Enter" to end program and close window.

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Running Without the IDE

We can double click here to run the program independently of the IDE.

Here is the exe file.

Running from the Desktop

Drag the hello.exe icon to the desktop.

Double click the icon to run the program from the desktop.

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Running Without the IDE

We can also run the program from the DOS command line.

Copy the exe file into a convenient directory (e.g. C )

Open a command window cd to the directory Type the command: hello

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Running from the Command Line

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Deploying the Program

The file hello.exe contains everything that is needed to execute the program.

To deploy the program to another Windows computer, just copy the file into a convenient folder.

Users can run the program from the command line, or can double click the file in the folder. Or can put a shortcut to the file on the desktop.

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Creating a Shortcut

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Running by Double Clicking

Move the shortcut to the desktop.

Now you can run the program by double clicking the icon.