Visual C++ and MFC Programming 2nd Edition

Chapter 2: Introduction to MFC Visual C++ and MFC Fundamentals

Visual C++ is configured to easily open its own Visual C++ projects that have the .dsw or

.mdp extensions. Additionally, you can open a Win32 project that was created using

Visual C++ (you may not be able to open a Win32 project created using Borland C++

Builder). You can also open Visual C++ and Win32 projects created with previous

versions of Visual C++.

To open a project, if you have used it as one of the previous 8 projects, when Visual

Studio opens and displays the Start Page, you should see a list of the last 8 projects used.

You can then click it to open it. As done with files, Visual Studio keeps a list of the

previous projects on its File menu. Therefore, to open one of the previously used projects,

you can click File -> Recent Projects. If you see the project you are looking for, you can

click it. If you write a lot of projects regularly, you may want to increase the list of files

and/or projects that the file menu keeps. To do this, on the main menu, you can click

Tools -> Options... In the Options dialog box, click the General node under Environment

and set the number desired for the Display edit boxes:

Figure 15: The Options Dialog Box............................................................................................

Practical Learning: Opening a Project

1. To open a project, on the main menu, click File


2. Position the mouse on Recent Workspaces and click Exercise2

1.4 Getting Help.....................................................................................................

1.4.1 Online Help..............................................................................................

While working on your projects, you will usually need to figure out how something can

be done and sometimes why it is done like that. This is where you will need help. There

are three primary types of help you can use: online, Microsoft, and others.