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Understanding the Project Types
tasks or that your version has fewer capabilities. Even with these differ-
ences, the examples in this minibook should work fine with any version of
Visual Studio.
Understanding the Project Types
One of the first things you’ll notice is that Visual C++ offers a lot of different
projects, all of which interact with Windows. To see the projects that Visual
C++ has to offer, choose File➪New➪Project in Visual Studio. You see the
New Project dialog box shown in Figure 1-1. The templates used to create
new projects appear in the Visual C++ folder.
Figure 1-1:
You use the
New Project
dialog box
to create a
new empty
project with
nothing in it.
Figure 1-1 shows all the templates installed on the target system. Note that
you can add new projects to the list by clicking Search Online Templates. It’s
also possible to create your own templates or to modify existing templates
to meet your needs. However, creating a new template requires quite a bit of
skill, so the chapter doesn’t discuss this option in any detail.
The list in Figure 1-1 could be overwhelming. Microsoft categorizes these
projects according to task. For example, when you select the Visual C++\
Win32 folder, you see two templates:
✦ Win32 Console Application
✦ Win32 Project
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