Advanced C++ - Class 1

Course overview and syllabus review

• Review in class the syllabus and course outline, questions and Answer

Review of Visual Studio, settings and operations

• Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment to help you build C++ applications.  The top level of assembly is the workspace.  Each workspace can have many projects and projects have build settings.  Projects have source that
  include source code, resource scripts, bitmaps etc.  Each of these entities can have settings.
  
  
• Projects have a configuration.  A configuration is a set of settings.  You create a configuration under [Build] - [Configuration].  Typical configurations are for Debug and Release.  
  
  
• A useful setting is a preprocessor directive where you may use #ifdef in your code to create conditional compilations through various configurations.
  [Build] - [Configuration] - [Add]  (name the Configuration)
  [Build] - [Set Active Configuration]
  [Project] - [Settings] - [C/C++] - [Preprocessor Directives] (Add one to this line separated by a comma)

Building a Console and debugging a console application

• Review Chapter 1
• Using Visual Studio in the Class Room
• How to create a Win32 Console Application
• Using the debugger
• How To Print Console Application Output

Debugging within Visual Studio

•  In class demonstration