Visual Studio is Microsoft's integrated development environment. It supports a number of languages and can be used to build native executables or build applications that run in Microsoft's .Net environment. We don't use .Net, only native executables produced from C++ source code.

This is the Visual Studio web site.

Installing Visual Studio

This is a commercial product that is not provided for free, so you will need a Visual Studio install disk from Microsoft. Use the installer on the install disk and follow the prompts.

Using Visual Studio

Add some notes about Visual Studio solution and project files and how to create them for a new project. Add some notes about how to add source files to a Visual Studio project file.