1. 1 Getting Started with C++

2. 2 Objective You will be able to create, compile, and run a very simple C++ program on Windows, using Visual Studio 2008

3. 3 Start Up Visual Studio 2008 Click

4. 4 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.

5. 5 Ready to Create a Project

6. 6 Creating a C++ Project in Visual Studio 2008

7. 7 Click

8. 8 Creating a C++ Project in Visual Studio 2008 Click

9. 9 Start with an Empty Project Click

10. 10 We Have a Project

11. 11 Adding a Source File to the Project

12. 12 Adding a Source File to the Project Click

13. 13 It's Open in the Editor

14. 14 Add the Program Code

15. 15 View the Solution Explore r

16. 16 Solution Explorer Window

17. 17 Compile and Link the Program

18. 18 Run the Program Click here to run

19. 19 Program "hello.cpp" in Action Press "Enter" to end program and close window.

20. 20 Running Without the IDE We can double click here to run the program independently of the IDE. Here is the exe file.

21. Running from the Desktop Drag the hello.exe icon to the desktop. Double click the icon to run the program from the desktop. 21

22. 22 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

23. 23 Running from the Command Line

24. 24 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.

25. 25 Creating a Shortcut

26. 26 Running by Double Clicking Move the shortcut to the desktop. Now you can run the program by double clicking the icon.