Visual Studio

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Installation

Download Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code from Microsoft‘s website.

Visual Studio

IDE for .NET and C++ developers on Windows for building web, cloud, desktop, mobile apps, services and games.

Compile C++ with all dependencies (DLLs)

  • Click on the project name (top collapsible).
  • Click on Project -> Properties.
  • Click on Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Code Generation.
  • Set Runtime Library to:
    • Multi-threaded (/MT) for Release
    • Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd) for Debug
  • Click on Build -> Build Solution

Visual Studio Code

Standalone source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It has many extensions to support most languages.

Useful Extensions