Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to obtain the following screen. You may also get a project start page with the names of previous projects if applicable.

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File, New, Project will result in the following screen:

F.2

Enter a project name and specify the location for this project folder where all your files (and a lot more) will be stored. Then the following pop-up will appear:

F.3 and F.4

Where we specifically want to select application settings, console application, and an empty project. This will give us the following Window for our project:

F.5

File, Add new item, will result in the following window where you can specify the name of the C++ source file (plain simple text) for our project.

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This will leave use in the Visual Studio editor, ready to type in our code:

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From the Build menu, compile and link your program with Build HelloWorld, where I obtain the following errors:

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Once I solve the problem of a missing quote after the text literal, the code compiles and builds with no errors. Then I run the program from the Debug menu, Start Without Debugging, and this console application runs successfully as shown below:

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Reopen your project by finding the solution file created by Visual Studio, or you start page might list recent solutions for easy access:

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The debugger allows an efficient method to halt your program at any line, examine contents of variables, and generally help us find problems. In the following program, I right-click on the cout line, insert a breakpoint, the Debug Start (or simply click the start button).

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Multiple files can be easily accommodated with a right-click on the source files folder, the add existing item, and browse to the file location. When good code is provided, the program can be again executed with Debug, Start Without Debugging:

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