Traditional Structured Programming

	Chapter 2 - A Quick Start Using the IDE
	Visual C++ 6: The Complete Reference
	Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray, III

Copyright 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies

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	Chapter 2: A Quick Start Using the IDE

	Overview

	The Microsoft Visual C++ IDE is an integrated development environment that allows you to easily create, open, view, edit, save, compile, and debug all of your C and C++ applications. As an integral part of the Microsoft Development Studio, the C/C++ environment operates as a cohesive component within the entire Microsoft family of languages, including Visual Basic, and Visual J++. The advantage to this language development suite is the ease of learning and use provided by such a cohesive set of development features and tools. To a very large degree, except for the specific language’s syntax, once you have learned one environment’s features (for example, Visual C++), you automatically know how to use the others! With Microsoft Development Studio ‘s language integration, you can easily develop and combine multi-language source files into one program.

	As do all of the Development Studio components, the Visual C++ IDE (integrated development environment) contains options for fine-tuning your work environment according to your personal preferences and to comply with application-specific hardware requirements. Many of the features discussed in the next sections are demonstrated in Chapter 3.

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