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Book VII
Chapter 1
Working with the
Visual C++ 2008 IDE
and Projects
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Viewing Your Project in Solution Explorer
You don’t have to type something to see IntelliSense. To see the same dis-
play as Figure 1-6 for any function you have already typed, place the cursor
within the function call and press Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar. If you want to see a
list of items you can type, press Ctrl+Spacebar instead.
Viewing Your Project in Solution Explorer
Every time you create a new application in Visual Studio, you work with a
solution. The solution contains one or more projects, as previously men-
tioned. It’s helpful to see the hierarchy of solution, project, and associated
files, and Solution Explorer provides this view. Figure 1-7 shows the hierar-
chy for the sample console application in this chapter.
Figure 1-7:
Solution
Explorer
displays a
list of the
files in the
project.
Notice how Visual Studio organizes the application content for you. The
solution and its name appear at the top, followed by the project, both of
which are named Hello World in this case. Under the project, you see three
folders containing headers, resources, and source files. In this case, the proj-
ect contains two header files and two source files.
The ReadMe.txt file contains information about the project that the template
creates for you. This file doesn’t add anything to the application. However, it
does contain useful information that can help you remember the purpose of
default files in the application.
Solution Explorer can also help you interact with your project. When you
right-click an object in Solution Explorer, you see a list of tasks you can
perform with that object. Upcoming chapters in this minibook will point out
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