Visual C Tutorial: Getting Started
The Visual C++ Development Environment
Before you begin your quick tour arround Visual C++ development environment, you should
start Visual C on your PC. In this way you will see how each of the areas are arranged and
how you can change and alter the arrangement yourself. After you start the Visual C
environment, you will see a window like below:
The Workspace
When you start the Visual C, the area on the left side of Developer Studio is known as the
workspace. The workspace allows you to view
parts of your application in three different ways: The Output Pane
- Class View allows you to navigate and manipulate your source code on a C++ class level
- Resource View allows you to find and edit each of the various resources in your application,
including dialog window designs, icons and menus.
- File View allows you to view and navigate all the files that make up your application.
The Output pane might not be visible when you open Visual C++ for the first time.
After you compile your first application, it appears at the bottom of the environment
and remains until you will close it. The Output pane is the region where the compiler
prints all the information the it gives you: the compliler progress statesment, the errors
and warnings. In the same window, the debugger will display all the variables and their
current values as you step through your code.